The New York herald., 1921-11-27
WAVES OF CRPPLES
| OVERWHELM LOREM;
| 1O6 TREATED in DAY
Performs First Two Blood
less Operations, Both
| Promising Cures.
LIKE LOLITA ARMOUR
Little New Jersey Girl and
Newsboy Chosen From
Sufferers.
NEW CLINICS ARRANGED
st. Marks and Kings County
Hospitals Opened to Fa-
nous Surgeon.
NEW CLINICS ARRANGED


Another flood Of human misery beat
ceaselessly yesterday against the soors
OF the Hospital for Deformities and
Joint Diseases at Madison avenv- and
l2Sd street. It's tide began TO How
strongly long before the dawn OF a
fsray. overcast morning. It had not
yet ebbed under the weitcr oe rain
that gave added pathos to the epecta-
Gle an hour past noon.
DR.. Adolf Lorenz. vienna's famous
specialist. did all that science and his
marvellous skill could do to stem the
tide and salvage it's victims. But the
magnitude OF the outpouring appalled,
him. The multitude filled both the
intersecting streets and the double
line which an extra force of police
strove to keep IN sonie seinblance of
order stretched around the block It
was an inundation in face of which
the surgeon seemed almost as power-
less as was Canute striving to stem
the onrushing waves OF the sea-
While members OF the house staff
s!fted from the throngs the most urgent
cases Of distress and huddied them un-
der shelter OF the clinics assembly
rooms. there to await their sur-o, Dr.
Lorena in the operating room, FOR the
first time since his present trip to Amer
ica. was demonstrating in two success
sive operations the blood.ess manual
r,,efho<3, 90 cvr~or.- x--s4t, x-ytsn,, ut.
is associated throughout the world
Like LpIft. Armour.
Farrell, 6 years old, Of 12o Union street,
Jersey City. Standing erect In the long
clinical gown that swarned his powerful
form from ankles to neck, the surgeon
explained that the operation ne was
about to attempt was precisely similar
to that which eighteen years ago he had
performed upon Lolita Armour. As all
the world knows he found the daughter
Of the Chicago pecker a seemingly hope
less cripple and opened for her the way
to normal girlhood and wornanhood.
This case, Ike the other, he said, was
one OF double congenital dislocation of
tho hips, which he would reduce by the
bloodle9s method of forcible n,anipula-
ton. Then the magic arms and hands
went to work. For fifteen minutes the
surgeons steel thewed fingers and
wrists were busy manipulating, rotating
the feu,ur of the right leg and after
ward Of the left. thrusting them by main
force uo into the acetabular cavities, or
sockets. of the hip joints. Though the
an nwrt ftxfr I'LL
with medical guests and others VINO
watched breathlessly, the stiffness was
unbroken save by the labored breathing
Of the surgeon, who was putting into
the effort every ounce OF his vast VI
tality
At last. one after the other. a sharply
audible click stabbed tho silence like the
discharge OF an airgun. The thigh bones
had snapped back into the sockets nature
had prepared for them. but wherein they
nevet yet had functioned normally.
All who were present observed that
he right thigh bone, or femur, had
snapped back into place with a crisp,
istinct sound. The snap Of the left leg
vas not so pronounced and DR.. Lorenz
frowned.
mo so good, not SO good.v he said,
shaking his head and addressing the
white aproned staff of surgeons and
nurses surrounding him. The expert ex-
planned that the prospect of complete
success varied directly with tho sound
OF the snap. II the eound were more or
less rnuffled and indlstinct & meant that
nature had not developed a hip socket
large enough as yet to receive smoothly
and retain in place the knob OF the thigh
bone. In such cases a complete recov-
cry depends, ne said. upon the bounty of
nature in her subsequent readjustment
OF deficient bone substance
No Instruments Used.
ness expert used no Instruments save his
supple, viseiilse hands There was
neither knife nor bloodshed. The child.
frightened and crying at first. yielded
readily TO the process OF ctherization.
Planting himself firmly at the feet Of
the patient. DIR. Loreng then gripped first
the right leg and thrust II TO right and
left. like "a lever. Then he caught IL at
the knee and rotated IL heavily. as tho
pharmacist msuls the pestIe In his NOR
tar
Next iie seized the leg In different
grip STOPPING forward until his silvery
beard swept The breast OF the uncon-
scious child, he exerted all the power Of
those sinewy arms and shoulders, press
ing homs the thigh bone by main
strength. Ills pink cheeks redeemed un-
der the sustained effort. making him
look more than ever like some ideaiized
Saint Nicholas. Finally came the re-
assuring click. the eignai Of success.
Veronica Farrell. OF course. felt no
pain. but a reaction which the doctors
said was wholly subcorScoius expressed
Itself NJ times In little whimpering
r,oans When the snap came, relieving
the general air Of suspense, Dr.. Lorenz
strsishtcned up to his impressive r1r