The New York herald., 1921-11-29
EXHAUSTED, LORENZ
HALTS TWICE IN day
Surgeon Almost Faints
From Fatigue and
IA Indigestion.
UNUSED TO RICH FARE
Broad Street Executive
Garbs Oyemeal of
Austrian.
LUNCHEON AT FRAUNCES'S
Visitor Has to ForegO Food
Recause Of His Conditiou
LUNCHEON AT FRAUNCES'S
Visitor Has to Forego Food
Because of His Condition
Caused by Overwork.

In the faces of crippled children
who patiently awaited DIR. Adolf
14orenz at two hospitals yesterday
and timidIy approached him at his
hotel and everywhere he went on the
street there was much to inspire pity
and sympathy. On the face Of the
surgeon last evening there was more
Twice in the long day DR.. Lorenz
was comrel'eH BY fatigue and illness
to cease his ministrations, and these
halts in the task he has set for him
self hurt him deeply There are
enough crippled men, women and
childra~ in New York to balk the skill
and endurance % hundred Lorenzes
and tho only nr. Lorenz bitterly re-
grets his own age and weakness.
The drs' cessation of work was at the
Hospital for Joint Diseases Madison
avenue and 123d street. when the sur
geon almost tainted after performing
three operations and making forty ex-
aminations. .'ne second was in the af-
ternoon at the Broad Street Hospital by
the perem. torv order of DR.. Leffert A.
board of the hospital, after DR.. Lorenz
had examine. ten patients.
s.Wouid Work TIL He Fell"
"This clinic IL over" DR.. McClelland
announced firmly "Dr. Lorenz is ex-
hausrsd. He would work until he fell, !
know. hit do not purpose that shall
happen in this hospital. Only by con-
serving his strength can he do the great
est amount Of good"
DIR. Lorenz nodded absently in recog-
milton of the patter of applause which
ended the clinic. turned from the patient
on the operating board to examine q
little girl who was to have been next
spoke word or two to DIR. Fox, who
was assisti' & him, and turned back to
the patient on the table. He was in
duced to stop a little later.
Although DIR. Lorenz. who is 81, still
gives forth an impression Of strength, he
Is not the same man who ten days ago
arrived by the liner Paris. He is tired :
the whiteness of his hair and long beard
OF his cheeks, for they are pale, and
show fine lines instead of smooth skin.
American Fare Too Rich.
After his partial collapse in the MORN
ing at the Hospital for Joint Diseases,
DIR .Loreuz was taken to a room on one
of the upper floors of the hospital and
later to the Office Of DR.. Jacob Kaufman,
stomach specialist at 81 East Fifty
eighth street. The surgeon was found to
be suffering from nervous indigestion
due TO overwork and to the fact that
DIR T<orenz had been accustomed in
Austria to eat very sparingly of the un-
nutritious food of that half-starving
country, and the richer food here dis
agreed with him.
DR.. Lorenz arrived at the hospital at
in the morning and found outside the
doors. standing patiently in the rain. a
crowd OF 500. People suffering from
every conceivable deformity were there,
many having waited since 1 o'clock.
Mothers held babies born crippled, In
their arms, and other mothers tried
vsiniy, by rubbing and patting, to keep
other small sufferers from becoming
chilled from standing on the wet side
walk. Fifty of the 500 were permitted to
enter at s, and the others were told
that Il was impossible for DIR. Lorenz TO
see any moro that day. Signs were dis
played In the hospital windows announc-
ing this. but many hung on to see him.
Even after he had left to see the special
ist a few strove to get into the hospital.
Guest mt Fraunce's Tavern.
After his visit to the surgeon DIR.
Lorenz, according to schedule, attended
luncheon In his honor at F'rauncess
Tavern. DR.. A. J. Barker Savage,
superintendent Of the Broad Street Hos
pitaI, was host. The luncheon was a
barren formality. as far as food was
concerned, TO DIR. Lorenz. but he ap-
preciated the tribute from the medical
u1en and governors of the hospital.
DIR. Lorenz, speaking briefly. standing
with his hands on the back of his chair,
said his answer to the often put ques-
tion, How do you like American was
that he liked America very much. but
that he appreciated most of all Amer
lean charity. and what IL had done in his
own country He went on:
II have many titles at home. ] am a
doctor, q professor. was a counsellor OF
the old Austrian Empire, but here the
other day was called the Austrian
ambassador OF mercy. and / consider
that the most beautiful and the highest
TO which any man can aspire"
Z Dr. McClelland who presided, and
Charles Strauss, rember OF the board
of governors. welcomed DR.. Lorenz. Mr.
( Strauss said the surgeon brought mes
sage OF hope and health to the crippled
and an evan broader and greater mes
o4t. Of