The New York herald., 1921-11-21
LORENZ UNCERTAIN
/ OF WELCOME HERE
Surgeon, in City, Is Apple.
hensive Over Fact He
Is an Austrian.
COMES TO HELP POOR
Desires to Show Gratitude
of His Country for Our Aid
After the War.
BRINGS NEW OPERATION
He Has Not Yet Received an
Invitation to Work in
Any Hospital.
BRINGS NEW OPERATION

DR.. Adolf Lorenz of Vienna, the ia
nous orthopedic surgeon, who arrived
here Saturday to help repay, by treat
ing poor American children. the debt
OF gratitude owed by Austria to this
country, yesterday in the Murray Hill
Hotel seemed somewhat uncertain as
TO his reception here by the American
medical profession.
When lie was here last-eighteen
years ago-Dr. Lorenzs demonstra-
lions and lectures were competed for
most eagerly by the best hospitals
and medical schools of the country.
He operated in New York alone in
the Graduate, Orthopedic, Kings
County. Polytechnic, Bellevue, Physi-
clans and Surgeons, Beth Israel and
Cornell Medical College hospitals. His
most famous operation was that by
which he cured Lolita Armour, consid-
cred hopeless cripple. He was given
the freedom of the city by Mayor Low.
But now DR.. Lorenz seems to fear
the fact he Is an Austrian may result
In unfrendly feeling and lack of CO.
operation.
1T should not be so. and hope it
will not be so.' he said. with indi-
vidual American surgeons I have had
during these long years since my last
visit the most cordial correspondence.
hut I do not know just how the medi-
cal organizations feel about an Aus
trian coming here. But it must be done
1t must be done. The physicians and
surgeons of America and my own coun-
try must resume their relations and
their friendship. What has a doctor. "A
healer Of wounds to do with hate or
with International strife?
Await American Students.
I'm Vienna we long for the return OF
American medical students and are max
ing preparations to receive them and
to teach them what We know. 1t is not
possible for Austrian physicians to come
to this country for the fortune of an
Austrian in crowns has now been re-
duced by foreign exchange to almost
one-thousandth of the value before the
war. |. myself. come on my mission
with the assistance Of American friends.
for the cost of a trip to America is from
two to three millions OF our crowns, once
worth five to a dollar.
IF possible I would have brought my
son with me, for he Is a skilled surgeon,
too, but he must remain at home to care
for my patients there and to earn bread
for his mother"
DR.. Lorenz, who is siXtyseven. is n
broad shouldered man, six feet in height,
of massive build. His long beard. mus
tache and thin hair are white, but his
large hands. with unusually long fingers.
are still apparently as strong as ever.
Saved by Americans
He said he brings with him moving
pictures and X-ray photographs illustrat-
ing new bloodless method of reducing
congenta dislocations OF the hip. and
also an instrument for use in place of
the hands for the stretching and bending
OF the malformed parts. hips. feet. knees,
on which he is operating. He also has
p now operation for the relief OF cases
where the neck of the femur is frac-
tui'ed.
When he Is talking of his own country
his face lights up as he describes how
thousands and thousands of children