New-York tribune., 1919-10-24
Surgeons Here See
American Perform
Lorenz Operation
Treatment That Cured Lolita
Armour Demonstrated at
Clinic Attended by Dele.
gates to College Congress

The methods used By DR.. Adolf
Lorenz, Of Vienna, in 1902, when he
amazed the medical world by operating
daughter Of the Chicago packer, were
used in New York yesterday by DR..
Reginald II. Sayre at clinical demon
stration under the auspices Of the
American College Of Surgeons.
In 1902 DR.. LorenZ went from Vienna
to Chicago to attend his patient, who
was suffering from congenital dislOca
tion of the hip. Yesterday at st. Vim
cents Hospital Dr. Sayre, before a
large number Of interested spectators,
used the methods employed by the
Vienna surgeon and was equally sue
cessful. demonstrating on children suf-
fering from congental defoymities.
Other interesting cases in surgery
gcons in different hospitals. At Lenox
Hill Hospital Dr.. Franz Torek oper-
ated on q patient suffering from can
Ger Of the oesophagus a case in which
cancer was removed through the
chest more than six years ago. Sur
geons declared this probably the only
case in which patient has been oper
ated on twice for cancer in six years.
Armstrong Heads Surgeons
Dr.. George E. Armstrong, Of Mon
t,eal, one of the most distinguished
surgeons in Canada. was elected presi-
dent OF the American College Of Sur
geons at yesterday afternoons session
Of the congress. He will take office
next year and will succeed DR.. William
J. Mayo, Of Rochester, MINI.
The congress also elected DR.. Ru-
dolph Matas, Of New Orleans, first
w.
ard, of Boston, second vice-president
1t named boards of governors for terms
expiring in 1921 and 1922.
DR.. Armstrong served as a colonel
with the Canadian forces during the
war and is now chief surgeon at the
Royal Victoria Hospital Montreal
At the conclusion Of the afternoon
session Of the congress in the grand
ball room, at the Waldorf Astoria, DR..
Louis D.. Moorhead, of Chicago, in
spector for the hospital STANDARDIZED
t1on commmlttee, announced the list Of
hospitals in the United States receiving
official approval. Only hospitals of one
hundred beds arc included in the list,
and twenty-six Of the ninety hospitals
of one hundred beds or more in New
York State were named: They are:
Bellevue Hospital, Beth 1sreal Hospi-
tai Brooklyn Hospital, Buffalo Homco-
nathic, Ellis Hospita (schenectady),
Erie County Hospital (Buffalo), Hahne-
mann Hospital (Rochester), Hospital Of
the Good Shepherd (Syracuse), Jewish
Hospital Of Brooklyn. Lebanon Hospi-
tai, Long Island College Hospital, Mt.
Sinai Hospital, Mt. Vernon Hospital,
New York Ego and Ear Infirmary, New
York Hospital, New York Infirmary for
Women and Children, New York Ortho-
pedic Dispensary, New York Society for
Relief of Rupturcd and Crippled Oneida
County Hospital, Presbyterian Hospital,
Rochester General Hospital, st. Johns
Riverside Hospital, 81. Lukc's Hospital
and Wyckoff Heights Hospital
Chicago Gift Accepted
The congress voted to accept the Chi
cago home which was offered as a gift
to the American College of Surgeons by
citizens Of Chicago. Administrative
headquarters will be established there
A committee was appointed to carry
out the industrial surgery rccommen-
dations made Wednesday night. Or.
Edward Martin, Of Philadelphia, is
chairman Of this committee