The Indianapolis journal. [volume] (Indianapolis [Ind.]) 1867-1904, 1904-03-29
DIR. LORENZ IS COMING
BACK FOR 4 DEGREE
Great Surgeon Will Make Journey
to Receive Honor from Jeffer-
son College.
Philadelphia Press.

DR.. Adolph Lorenz, the great Vienna
surgeon, whose skill in the bloodless opera
ton that bears his name won the admiration
of the American medical profession during
his visit to this country more than year
ago. will journey from Austria to this city
to receive the honorary degree of doctor of
laws from the jefferson Medical College at
its commencement exercises, on May q.
The memory of the wonderful ability of
the tall viennese is still fresh in the men,
DRY of the surgeons of this city, and in
coming to the jefferson to receive the de-
gree of that institution DR.. Lorenz is re-
turning to the scene of one of his most
notable triumphs. For it was i'm this city,
while returning to Europe from Chicago,
where he had operated Lolita Armour,
that he achieved probably the greatest
triumph of a journey that was almost a
procession of triumph.
Here, in the Jefferson Hospital amphi-
theater, surrounded by the most conserva-
tive and critical body of medical men in
America, he demonstrated successfully and
beyond all doubt the value of the bloodess
operation for the reduction of congenital
dislocation offthe hip joint With no aid of
instrument, but just with his own great
strong hands, he kneaded the muscles and
stretched the sinews and put in place the
bones of four crippled tots.
During the coming visit DR.. LorenZ Will
take part in still more important and
interesting clinic which will be held at the
Jefferson Hospital on June 6. For TO this
clinic will also come DIR. Albert Hoffa, of
the University of Berlin, the surgeon whose
cutting operation for the rendition OF hip
joint dislocation first was followed then
modified and finally abandoned by Lorenz
for the bloodless method.
DR.. Hoffa, in 1880, while professor of
childrens surgical diseases at WurZburg,
first drew the attention of the world to his
"open" or cutting operation for hip disloca-
ton. DIR. Lorenz studied the operation.
which entailed a large incision above the
posterior part of the joint, and finally
adopted a modification involving a smaller
anterior incision. This latter was knoNn as
the Hoffa-Lorenz operation. In 1892, how
ever. the Vienna surgeon gave up the cut
ting altogether in the cases of children
under eight years where the tissues were
plastic enough, and proceeded to reduce
cases of dislocation by means of forcible
manipulation only.
DR.. Hoffa, who is now a professor at the
University of Berlin, Will arrive in this
city on June l. Both he and DR.. Lorenz
will be the guests of DIR. H. Augustus
Wilson, professor of orthopedics at Jeffer-
son. They will spend the time at DR.
Wilson's home in this city and at his cot
tage at Atlantic City.
The presence of these two distinguished
surgeons will do much to clear up the
slight differences OF opinion existing be-
tween surgeons on the relative value of the
two methods at various ages of the patient
For il is now conceded that the bloodless
method Is the better when IL is possible
but it is only possible in cases of a certain
age Rarely have children over nine year.
possessed sufficient softness of the tissues
TO permit Of IL.
1t is proposed that at the clinic next Jun,
different cases will be taken up and thai
! DIR. Hoffa will operate on at least one pa
| tient upon whom the Lorenz method was
| not successful.
II is expected that the prominent English
| orthopedic surgeons, DR.. Noble Smith, o.
London, and DR.. Robert Jones. of Liver
pool. will also attend the clinic.