New-York tribune., 1921-12-02
Child analysis
Cases Barred
By DIR. l4orenz
Prescribed Treatment for
This Disease Well Under
stood by All Ortllopedists,
Is Explanation for Stand
Acute Deformity His Forte
Despite AnnouncementMany
Parents With Helpless
Children Seek Attention

DR.. Adclph Lorenz, the famous Wen
nese orthopedist, will examine no more
infantile paralysis cases, it was an
nounced yesterday at the Hospital for
Joint Diseases. The explanation fer
this stand, given by DR.. Lorenz through
DR.. Henry Frauenthal, superintendent
Of the hospital, is that the prescribed
treatment for post-infantile paralysis
system Of massage. manipulation and
muscle education-is we'll understood
by all orthopedists, and is indeed made
an obligatory after-treatment of the
disease by the Board of Health. DR..
Lorenz wishes to be free to follow with
a true surgical interest the cases of
acute and congenital deformity with
which his surgery has hitherto chiefly
concerned itself.
This announcement, boldly printed
and prominently displayed, was no
more needed than the one Of the earlier
part Of the week which advised patients
that 1t was useless to wait for DR.
Lorenz unless they had appointment
cards. The crowds Of parents bearing
their helpless children waited on stol-
idly and incredulously. Commenting
on this, DR.. Frauenthal said that the
majority were people who had never
sought help at the institution before
and that DR.. Lorenz had performed his
greatest service here by rousing to a
sense of their responsibility parents
who had been only too willing to put a
brace on a child and then lapse dis
treatement which is an essential part
of the cure.
Another curtallment announced by
the institution was the reduction of
DR.. Lorenz's clinics from six mornings
8 week to Monday, Tuesday
Wednesday and Friday
DR.. Lorenz performed two operations
yesterday morning. The first was on a
three-year-old child, Frieda Weiger, of
Clifton. N. j. This was an anky!osis.
The second was that Of Abraham
Rabinowitz, thirty-fve years old, of 6e
East 117th Street, an old case of tuber-
culosis of the hip complicated by q
congenital deformity. This was cor
rected by an operation scientifically
known as sub-troc hanteric osteotomy
The plain English of it is that with a
chisel and mallet DR.. Lorenz broke the
bone little below the hip joint and
cut some old contracted tendons. Then
he united the tip of the hip socket with
the tip of the thigh bone by forcible
manipulation into q correct position
The incision through which this wa,
accomplished was no more than All inch
long and only few drops of blood were
spilled. DR.. Lorenz. commenting as he
went along, said that this might also
pass for bloodless surgery though ii
was subcutaneous operation.
During the afternoon Dr. Lorenz ex-
amined twenty persons, most of then
victims of infantile paralysis, at the
New Jersey Memorial School for Re
habilitation, 571 Jersey Avenue, Jersey
City. As he examined each he die
tated to a stenographer the method o1
treatment that probably would be ben
ehclal. He told one of the patients, {
man who has walked on his knees al
his life, that an operation might en-.
able him to use his feet.
He spent an hour at the task, anc
was then so exhausted that he had te
lie down for an hour. DR.. Lorenz is te
appear before the New Jersey Acad.
cmy of Medicine, in Newark, but the
date has not been fixed.