The New York herald., 1921-11-28
Will Prescribe Treatment
) for All and Leave Details
to Doctors Here.
STRENUOUS LIFE TELLING
Scientist Says He Is Too Old to
+: Root Himself in United
+ g States.

There was no rest yesterday for DR..
Adolf Lorenz the noted Viennese sur
geon.
True. he did not strive nightly all
morning in the Hospital for Joint
Diseases, Madison avenue and 123d
street, as on weekdays against a
stream Of cripples whose demands on
him mounted as his fame spread
throughout the city, But the stream
of the disabled did not cease to flow;
1T merely thinned and was DETECTED
from the hospital to the Murray Hill
Hotel, where the surgeon is staying.
DR.. Lorenz in the week he has been.
In this country has become lodestone.
irrestistibly drawing to himself from
every side the men, women and chill
dren Of the great democracy Of the
deformed.
At an hour yesterday morning at
which most of New York was still
abed, DR.. Lorenz, standing in the lobby
of the hotel before a divan Uttered
with kilograms and special delivery
AOttOAo, Will SCNCidf cdStt CIlPpleS anu
friends or parents OF cripples waiting
around him, stretched out his hands
in despair.
Il have only two hands, ten fingers"
he said despairingly. "All I can do
will do, but cannot do everything"
His strenuous week in New York has
already made inroads on the vitality OF
the surgeon. He is 81 years old. and,
although his long, straight fingers are
steellike In their grasp. he is not quite
SO vigorous as the untiring man who,
nineteen years ago. gained fame in this
country by lifting Lolita Armour out of
the ranks Of the permanently disabled
into the region Of the normal. The ex-
stream of cripples have forced upon him
have already disarranged DIR. Lorenzs
digestion and forced him to a diet, but
he pressed on with undiminished zeal
yesterday.
Keeps viennese Children in Mind.
In the afternoon DR.. Lorenz paid fly
ing visit to some personal friends in
Mount Vernon. but hurried back to the
city in time to examine nine cases in the
office Of DR.. Dexter T. Ashley, an or
thopedist, at 346 Lexington avenue
Then he returned to the hotel where
more cases awaited him. Dr. Weymann,
his assistant, thinned out the number of
patients somewhat by dismissing those
suffering from disabilities due to ner-
vous disorders.
While taking few minutes rest at
the hotel DR.. Lorenz, in response to
questions, spoke briefly Of his philosophy
Of life and his plans on this trip.
IT work as we'll and as hard as can
70 relieve the sufferlngs of mankind" he
said "That Is my only aim, and I have
worked along this line for forty years"
He said that fees coming to him from
the rich In private cases would be
shared" by him with the children OF
Vienna, for the juvenile popula tion of
the city. although kept alive by the one
meal a day furnished by the American
relief workers. nevertheless lacks cloth
ing and medical attention as we'll az
food. He was particularly concerned by
the children of the middle class 'the
children Of the brain workers." as he
said, who are in a worse plight than any
OF the others.
ITO those must not go back with
empty hands," he said. "Yes. will go
back. ! am too old to be transplanted
to your energetic country. But I VIII
stay here as long as my health permits"
Most of those who came to the hotel
yesterday brought letters from some
one-no matter who-which they sur
rendered with the greatest reluctance
10 Dr. Clifford Weymann, former stu
dent under DIR. Lorenz and now his as
sistant. Some brought money others
brought none. but all received the same
attention.
DIR. Lorenz was anxious 70 make plain
that the cure of cripples is not matter
OF miracles. but n matter of science;
that not a miracle man. but a surgeon
can restore to the helpless the use OF
their limbs.
Renews Hope OF Cripples.
"All can do in most cases is to
! make an examination. to diagnose the