Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16
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one OF the young doctors and wags this
TO and fro upon the rcck. Quite grace
fully the person to whom the head be
longs submits TO the demonstration
Gfter which everybody present march.
cs back to the next cot where another
patient is waiting to be examined, DR.
Lorenz in the lead.
! Despite his weakness from his
riShtful ovcrwork since arriving In
this country Dr.. LorenZ shows sub
lime indifference to any efforts to re-
leve the strain of the endless examin'
ations which he is giving in the hos
pitals. At the Kings County Hospi-
tai. where he examined sixty children
several days ago. DR.. Mortimer Jones
superintendent of the hospital and DR.
Thomas D. Price, assistant supertn-
tendcrt, sought to relieve tie strain
and save DIR. Lorenz from the exper-
fences of The morning, whcH he had
tainted three times curing examina-
tions, by having him sit down and rest
little at intervals and drink a glass
! of water or n cup of tea.
! Patiently DR.. Price stood qt his ell
bow with a glass Of ice water, waiting
| for the moment when DR.. Lorenz
would be willing to pause from his
labors long enough to take it.
Finally DIR. Lorenz looked around,
saw the glass of water and shook his
head, smiling cordially.
mo, no ice water" he expostulated,
1T which there was general laugh,
apparently from the prohibition
clement.
!, Later DR.. Price returned with un-
iced water and various cups of tea
which he set enticingly within reach
Of DIR. Lorenz, Turing him meanwhile
10 seat. .s
Small Use for Tea.
One sip, perhaps two sips, and DR..
Lorcnz was off again, the tea waved
aside, and all his thought concentrated
either on the examination of a patient
or the exposition of some knotty point
in orthopedics. He seems to be most
happy when, a crowd Of his colleagues
gathered around him. he is half con-
versing and half teaching. At some
such times he beams upon his younger
colleagues with brotherly love in which
there mingles some element of the pa
ternal.
There are bound to be disappoint-
ments among, the people who are
flocking to DR.. Lorenz as If he were
miracle man." said one observant fol-
lower of the Lorenz clinics. Scores
of the cases which are brought to him
could only be cured by God, as the
doctor himself has said, and hundreds
Of others are too old for bloodless sur
gerry. which is his speciality, and can
only be improved. If at all, by less
magical processes involving years OF
treatment! The bloodless surgical op-
crations themselves are performed by
Americans whom DR.. Lorenz taught
en- his former visit here so there Is
no great discovery which he is i'm
parting to the medical fraternity dur
ing this visit, nor are the operations
beyond the power of American ortho-
pedists. But his vast fund OF detailed
knowledge and experience and his
genius for imparting II personally and
communicating his enthusiasm to 9TH
ers are Of enormous value. His visit
also arouses the parents OF crippled
Children TO the possibility of their i'm
rrovemcnt and cure. They take their
children to the hospitals when other
wise they might not do so, and thus
are. brought into contact with the mod
ern developments in othopcdic work.
DR.. Lorenz himself has asserted that
he regards this as the most important
result of his visit to America from the
American point Of view.
On a Double Mission.
There are no better othopedists in
the world than the Americans, he
says. 4 do not wish to interfere with
my colleagues here. When | examine
the children and diagnose their cases
it is understood that they shall go to
the American physicians TO have the
treatment carried out In only n few
instances can | myself perform opera
items. But | may be able to stimulate
the interest CT the parents and guar
dians of crippled children so that they
will make removed efforts to obtain
for the children treatment that per-
haps can cure or at least improve
them. We want to make crippled
children walk, even if they limp"
In addition to this motive DR.. Lo-
REM hopes to help in the restoration
Of good feelings between his native
Austria and the United States. He
seized the occasion of his visits to the
hospitals I'd call the attention OF other
physicians to tho fact that science and
war are incompatible, and that the
time has come to set aside intcrna-
ktional hatrcds and have done with
them forever.