The Dawson news. (Dawson, Ga.) 1889-current, 1921-12-06
ARMOUR OPERATION IS
DUPLICATED BY LORENz
BLOoDLESS SURGEON USES
ONLY HIS HANDS IN HEAL
ING CRIPPLES.
A THOUSAND WAITED OUTSIDE

6TeaInleSSly FOuCe were Nducu OuI
To Maintain Order. Examined 100
Lame Children, and Gave Words
Of Hope to Many.
NEW YORK, N. Y.-Before a gall
Ilery of surgeons that watched every
move with absorbed interest, DIR.
Adolf Lorenz duplicated on Saturday
in the Hospital for Deformities and
Joint Diseases the operation by which
he restored health to Lolita Armour
in Chicago more than fifteen years
ago.
The operation, a bloodless one, was
performed on Veronica Farrell, six
years old, of Jersey City, for relief of
double congenital dislocation OF the
hips through forcible manipulation.
The only other operation performed
|by DIR. Lorenz on Saturday was on
Ralph Gibbons, l2-year-old news
boy, for an advance condition OF
PARALYSIS. While the surgeon was
working almost breathlessly over his
two patients a crowd of a thousand
IDGTSOIS WdllGu OulSlQC lIiS hloPShSoiJ
and police reserves were called out to
maintain order
Examines 100 Cripples.
The doctor examined 100 other Grip
pies with words of hope to many.
In the operation on the Farrell child
after fifteen minutes rotating the femur
bones in the sockets of the hip joint
the bones were forced, one after the
other, back into place with audible
snaps. DR.. Lorenz explained the out
look for a cure varied directly with
the sound of the snap. The right thigh
bone went back with crisp, distinct
sound but the snap of the LETT leg
was not so pronounced, and the sur
geon frowned
mot so good" he said, shaking his
head and addressing the staff OF sur
peons and nurses in attendance. He
pointed out that this meant compli--
! cation-that nature had not developed
socket large enough to retain the
! knob of the bone, and that complete
recovery depended on natures subse-
ouent repair of the deficient bone sub
stance.
Uses Only Hands.
In this operation the Vienna special
ist used only his hands. Once the girl
had subsidized under the ether DIR. Lo-
REM stationed himself at her feet. He
took first the right leg and thrust IT
to the right and left like lever. de
caught it at the knee and rotated 1t
heavily at the hip. He then seized the
lee with his hands, and, leaning for
ward. his chin on the child's stomach,
Inv main strength forced the thigh
bone home. His face grew red IN the
Iexertion.
Finally came the long awaited snap,
and DR. L.orenz breathed with relief,
brushed perspiration from his lore
head and repeated the process on the
other leg.
His hands were all he used in cor
lrectinp the knock knees OF the GlD-
hons bov. Before the boy was brought
TO the operating table DR.. Lorenz had
decided to spring the knees back to
normal by a forcible stretching OF lig-
aments.
With the boy lying fiat on his back
the surgeon raised the left ankle by
means Of a block and then applied the
full weight of his own body on the
Ibov's left knee, which was held clear
Iof the table some six inches. With his
chow across the knee cap DR.. LorenZ
threw himself downward on the knee
springing it up and down time after
time.
The surgeon turned the boy over
lon his face and with the leg still jack
ed on the block renewed his crushing
pressure behind the knee on the mus
Giles of the thigh.
Win he had completed the oper-
alton on both legs DR.. Lorenz turned
the unconscious boy over to the house
surgeons. who set about applying the
plaster cast to hold the knees IN their
correct position.
Collapses Under Strain.
Weakened by lack of nourishme1t,
due to malady of the stomach, DR..
Lorenz tainted three. times Wnlie
attending patients in his charity clinic
here.
Then after recovering from the sue
Icession of col1apses, which took place
within few minutes of each other,
THE famous specialist, deaf to the plead
Iings of his American colleagues, m
sisted upon going to another hospital
where new scores of poor people were
Iclamoring for his ministratlons.
ut is too much-all this work" he
said Il cannot do it with my strength
Pm sorry"
When the great bone specialists saw
his first patients at $50 this. morning
hundreds of men, women and children
were waiting outside the hospital A
milk man and sandwich vender had
served breakfast to many.
Scores. hospital attaches declared.
had waited there in the rain all night
mothers and fathers with crippled
children in their arms, unfortunates
on crutches or leaning on canes. They
had been told the surgeon could not
possibly see them today. But still they
lbod waited UNDERSTANDING