The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1903-01-01
NEW BLOODLESS SURGERY.
Graphic Pen Picture of the Renowned
DR.. Lorenz at His Work.

Some call him lo-RENZE. some LO-
renss some LA NV-rens, some LAH-rents,
some Lan-RENTZ. 1t makes no differ
ence. The NIennese is no giant. l ex~
pected to see a Goliath He was a very
tender little street Arab, playing the
violin for crowns and forms. The ex-
erclse OF lingering the strings must have
gwen his LETT hand its power of manip-
ulatlOn in bloodleSs surgery.
In has immaculate white tOga he looks.
less ike a butcher than many eminent
masters of the scalpel and saw. His
arm, barred to the elbow. is brown ana
hairy His wrist is fiat and broad, d
wrist for strength. His hair, once red :
dlsh brown, genuinely Cisleithan, is
1lnged with white HIS beard is not
nearly so big and bushy as it appears in
MS pictures. His modest habit of look
lns down has given his neck forward
set and his shoulders a stooD He IS
neither imposing, Impressive nor COM
manains, says Victor Smith in the New
York Press
You would not turn to look at him a
second time in the street. In the oper-
at1ng theater 400 eyes critically observed
MN. The benches. made of structural
steel, slate and gaspiDe, are in tiers so
steep that their occupants presented n
almost vertical wall of faces.
A few well gowned middle aged wo-
men We're there, besides half a dozen
clean cut white capped white aproned
nurses. The visiting women may have
been doetresses DR.. Virgil P Gibnev,
who IS as strong as a bull moose and as
hardy as a red roller in a steel mill,
made a bluff and hearty master of cere-
monies. When he escorted Dr. Lorenz
into the pit there was an enthusiastic
round of hand clapping which being
ended, he said, swinging his arm in
half circle: Gentlemen land LADIES'
HE needs no Introduction Dead 81
lence followed The good doctor had al
most overlooked the women. DR.. Lo-
REM addressed Gentlemen" only, TAX
ing no notice of the women.
After a short preface read from a for
midable mass of typewriter copy DR..
Lorenz's first subject was brought in
upon table by two white robed at
tendants and transferred from that to
the operating table It looked like the
corpse of a little girl Her hair seemed !
very black and her skin very white, ex- !
cepting her face. which was flushed. I
Her stertorous breathing beneath the I
ether cone held by young doctor. in
Dictated the fast approaching end Of her +
against the anesthetic. Pres /
emily, with q sigh, she passed into thai
state Of temporary death which knows T
no pain. Then DR.. Lorenz, remarkfng I
quietly, Gentlemen. We have no time
to lose" laid down his manuscript ana /
set to work.
Dr.. Lorenz speaks fair English. but is +
hard to follow. His demonstration was
tedious because of his effort to explain /
the minutiae OF every detail His thirty
minutes seemed as many hours to me /
because feared he might kill the baby I
At last the climax Did you ever try 10
break hambO across your knee or (
across billet of wood2 There was al
round edged piece of maple on the table |
about the size of a brick. When the |
child's hip was placed upon this, ana
Dr. Lorenz. one hand on the abdomen. I
the other on the thigh. laid all of MS (
1875 pounds thereon. it was evident that
something must give way. Even those
blase surgeons leaned forward expect |
antly and ceased for the moment look I
ing so weary and satiated. Then came
to every ear a sound as of a man throw
ing his ankle out Of joint and we an
knew that the poor little criDDle's
awful defOrmity was cured. The head
Of the femur had entered the cup-shapefl
cavity Of the acetabulun. which had
been denied it since birth. And those
surgeons who looked so tired of life ac-
tpally clapped hands and said Bravo
DR.. Lorenz could have finished the
demonstration in five minutes had he So
desired. But the labor is terrific It is
j simple. matter of hands and fingers
and weight. The Viennese was greatly
exhausted. It makes an ordinary per
son feel queer to see this man correct
in a few minutes deformities that have