The Montgomery advertiser., 1903-05-08
PARENTS PRAY TO SURGEON
Club-footed Little Cripple IS
 Operated On.
pr. Sanders of Alabama Discusses an Important Subject at Meeting
 of the American Med
 ical Association

New Orleans, May 7.-Pathetic scenes | attended the appearance of pr. Adolf | Lorenz at the Charity Hospital today | The news that he would perform another | operation attracted fifty or more parents | with deformed children and multitude | of Gu. >us people who filled the railways | and grounds of the institution. Many | parents begged the privilege of submitting their children as subjects. but the doctor was only able to select one, ciuo-looteo little cripple. He desired case of con. genital hip dislocation but said ne haa been able to discover none here. nnougn thev were common in other sections that he had visited. The amphitheater was filled with doctors, nurses and hospital attenoants when the operation was performed. It required more than an hour and was ap- parently a success. Dr. Lorenz LOOK oc- casion at the conclusion of the operation to reply to some of the critlclsms that have been leveled at him. "It is charged that claim to De the originator of the method of bloodless surgery" he said. T do not claim any priority of treatment whatever. Some smart midwife of the middle ages proba- biy first tried this method.
 Work of Lorenz.
 "K only claim to have introduced more system, more technique and thoroughness into an old method which was long neg lected although without sufficient reason. I am only trying to make this method nonuIar for the benefit that will accrue to all mankind from it and think have incidentally made quite success Of 1t. The dissecting knife has played out In the treatment of clubfoot."
 pr. Lorenz was warmly applauded when he concluded. He said he hoped that the physicians here would take up his method and apply 1t. They could succeed as ne had. pr. Lorenz had great dlncnlty in getting away from the hospital, being pathetically appealed to by many mothers and fathers who had brought crippled children with, them.
 The House of Delegates continued its sessions today, taking up the matter or the proposed revision of the code or ethics.
 The American Medical Temperance As sociation met and listened to paper bv President w. s. Hall of Chicago, on natures immunization of the race against Dr. W. l.. Rodman of Philadelphia. in behalf of the portrait committee Of the American Medical Association, has pre- sented for the hall of fame a portrait of IOr, Hunter MCOulTe Ol NHBlhio' O distinguished Confederate surgeon and ex-President of the association.
 pr. w H. Sanders of Alabama. Dr. R. D. Murray of the Marine Hospital Service and Dr. J. M. Linsay of Cuba, participated in an interesting discussion before the section on hygiene on the question of public health powers and their exercise by the National State, county and municipal authorities.
 olG fO n interest ing paper on leprosy by Dr. 1sadore Dyer of Louisiana. and Dr. Dyer invit- ed a party of the doctors to visit the Louisiana lepers' home today. The sec ton nominated for officers. Dr. G. T. Swarts of Rhode Island. President. and Dr. John Fulton of Maryland for Sec retary.
 pr. Joseph Mcfarland of Philadelphia was elected President for the section on pathology and physiology. and Dr. Hen " A. Christian of Boston, Secretary.
 Dr. Edwin Walker presided at a meet ing of the Executive Committee of the Mississippi Valley Medical Association. It was decided to meet in Memphis De- foher T. and g.
 Final action on the proposed revision of the code of ethics was the feature of to- days session of the House of Delegates of the American Medical Association. The original code was established fifty years ago and those who urged revision con- tended it was out of joint with contem- porary conditions Chairman E. Eliot Harris, M. D., of the committee having the matter in charge. presented unani- nous report. It eliminated the word ''code" and substituted the expression ''The principles of Medical Ethics of the American Medical Association"
 The Report Adopted.
 The committee regarded 1t as wiser to formulate the principles of medical ethics without definite reference to code or penalties, thus leaving to the respective States, etc. to form such code and establish such penalties as they may regard to be fitting and proper for regu- lstinR the professional conduct of their members provided that in doing so there be no infringement of the established ethical principles of the association. The report on motion of Dr. Harris of New York was adopted unanimously amid tumultuous and prolonged applause.
 pr. Harris said that the association aa to be congratulated upon the fact that by the adoption of this report an end is nut to a controversial question which has disturbed the peace of our meetings for many years, and that the relation the Oode of medical ethics bears to the State ia the same as the constitution of the United States bears to the several States.
 The report of the Committee on Trans portation recommended Atlantic City for fhe next place of meeting. pr. w. T. satIes made an earnest effort to have Milwaukee substituted but his amend ment was voted down.
 pr. H. Burt Ellis read an earnest ap- ..~ol for immediate action upon the es-
 ,hment of a national bureau of med
 and foods and Dr. Mccormack,
 man of the Committee on Organiza-
 asked for the appointment by the
 of Trustees of an officer whose
 1t shall be to visit all medical col
 throughout the country without mo-
 to investigate their workings and
 of study and report to the next .rnual meeting. The concluding session .s tke House of Delegates and of the @sn,iantion will take place tomorrow when