The New York herald., 1921-11-22
SURGEONS WELCOME
VIENNA SPECIALIST
DR.. LOrenZ Has ImprOnlptu
Clinic in Hotel Lobby
for Twelve Cripples.
INVITED TO HOSPITALS
Consulted in Treatment OF
Patient at Broad Street
Institution.
WILL VISIT MAYOR HYLAN
Brings Thanks for City's Aid
10 Starving Children OF
Austria.
WILL VISIT MAYOR HYLAN

The fears of Or. Adolf Lorenz world
famous orthopedic surgeon Of Vienna
that his visit here might not he looked
on with favor because OF war ami
n1osities were dispelied in few hours
yesterday. Sunday night the surgeon.
stopping at the Murray Eli Hotel.
suggested that he might be subjected
20 embarrassnents. Eut at noon yes
rerday he was practically forced to
hold an impromptu clinic in the hotel
lobby, where dozen patients. most OF
them mothers with crippled children
had gathered to seek his aid
He was also the guest at luncheon
in the Harvard Club and later in the
afternoon went to Broad Street Hos
pital TO examine Miss Mary Moore, an
actress who suffered frightful injuries
in an automobile accident a week ago.
His day was completed with an invita-
ton TO operate at the New Jersey
State Hospital
DR. Lorenz's Witt TO tne. Broad Street
Hospital put him in touch with one OF
the most serious cases brought to the
attention of surgeons there in many.
months. Miss Moore. who played the
role OF Consueieto with Lou Tellegen IN
Don Juan was thrown from an auto
mobile at Babylon, l.. I. Or. Lorenz ey-
anined x-ray photographs. which
show that her skull is fractured in two
places. that the fourth vertebra in her
neck Is broken and that the fifth. six
and seventh vertebrae are disloeated
He then accompanied DR.. Robert T..
Morris. professor OF surgery at the Post
Graduate Hospital; DR.. William II. Dief-
fcnbach and other surgeons to Miss
Noore's room for a consultation.
The young woman's head has been
lield in place with what surgery knows
IS furry mast.p Dr. Lorcnz recon-
'nended that the upper part of her body
oe incased in plaster. and this was done.
lie showed great interest in the case
.rd II Is likely that he will continue TO
help her surgeons. ~
Or. Lorenz's eighteen years absence
rom the United States had in no wise
c'ouded American mothers memories Of
MS success in the case Of Lolita Armour.
i was proved BY the hnproInptp clinic.
There were many at the hotel to ash
his help. -
One young mother carried child who
could neither walk nor talk and whom
DIR. Lorenz regarded with a sad shake
OF his head.
1T Is 'triste' case" he said. "I
know the type we'll. A child like that
will improve gradually sometimes, but
there Is little that i could do to help.
The fault lies In the brain and not in the
limbs" -2.ss .l 5 Ve.,..-.
Or. Lorenz spoke to each applicant
and explained that az ynt dc was with
out facilities for making proper exam
nations. but that he hoped to he granted
the use of the Hospital for Ruptured
and Crippled Children at 92i East
Forty-second street within the next few
lays DR.. Virgil p. Gibney. head OF the
hospital, said last night that no decision
had beeen reached as 20 whether tho
hospital would DC opened 70 DR.. Lorcnz
Later In the week Or. Lorenz will VISIT
Mayor Hylan and express his gratitude
ror the aid given by citizens of New
York to the starving children Of Austria.
A similar visit will be paid to Herbert
Hoover before DR.. Lorenz sails for his
native country.