New-York tribune., 1921-11-29
LOrenZ Forced
To Rest While
Patients Wait
Vienna Surgeon Returns to
Crowded Hospital Room
After Hurried Treatment
for Nervous Indigestion
lnvalids Come From Afar
Three Are Operated Upon
and Six More Selected:
Visitor Luncheon Guest

There is new element in the drama
OF healing that is being enacted daily
at the Hospital for Deformities and
Joint Diseases that adds much to its
tenseness. That is the possibility of
the Austrian surgeon, DR.. Adolph
Lorenz, breaking down under the stress
of work. Yesterday he had to pause
at IL o'clock. overcome by fatigue. He
was escorted to an upper room in the
hospital, where visiting physician
treated him for nervous INDIGESTION.
No one in the waiting throng Of
patients left his place during the sur
geon's absence. Those places had been
too dearly bought by hours OF all
night vigil in the rain to be lightly
yielded. Every one was very still until
word came that the surgeon had re-
turned to the examination room, w-
freshed by the short reprieve.
Seemingly no one believes that the
elennese master of plastic healing has
any but miraculous fund of ceaseless
energy. lie has been overwhelmed by
pleadIngs and opportunities that have
followed him even to his hotel.
DR.. Lorenz is sixty-seven wears old.
be is scarcely robust and he is driving
himself very hard. On Sunday in
stead Of resting he held a clinic at the
Stapleton Baby Health Station. He ex-
amined fifty children, selecting three
Tor operations at the Kings County
Hospital to-day. Yesterday afternoon
he held an additional clinic at tbs
Broad Street Hospital, where, too, he
selected three patients for operations.
To-day he will hold an afternoon clinic
IN the Children's Hospital of the Kings
County Hospital, besides the usual
morning clinic at the Hospital for De-
formltles and Joint Diseases.
Hundreds Always Waiting
Here the same scenes re-enact them
selves as those which have so strik-
ingly marked the days of DR.. Lorenz's
visit. Hundreds waited all night in
the rain for the doors to open, nor
when at 8 o'clock DR.. Lorenz had ar
rived and the doors were shut, would
they abandon hope. Thousands pass
through each day and register them
selves, when the certainty is that only
a few tlndred can have the visiting
surgeons personal examination and of
these only few may hope to undergo
his personal treatment. Each day the
addresses they give are more and more
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skill travels further and further. Yes
terday there came many from Connec-
ticut and Massachusetts and PennsyI-
vania, ard even one from Georgia.
DR.. Lorenz arrived at the institution
at o'clock and began work promptly.
The three operations that he per
formed were all examples of the blood
less surgery which has become identi-
fed with his name. The first patient
treated was Mary Williams, of Little
Falls, N. Y, eleven years old, who was
operated upon for Erb's paralysis of
the left arm, resulting from an injury
at birth. The second was Bertram
Slaa, of 1923 Quincy Street, Passaic.
N. j., six weeks old, operated upon fer
congenital clubfoot, and the third was
Shirley Sacks, 11s North Avenue, Gran
ford, N. j., for congenital dislocation
of the right hip.
For an hour afterward Dr. Lorenz
examined patients, and then dismissed
the clinic and passed an hour pre-
pairing tomorrow's cases.
At the completion of the clinic DR..
Lorenz was taken to Fraunce's Tavern,
where he was the guest of honor at
luncheon given by the board of trustees
of the Broad Street Hospital. Those
present who spoke in praise of the
visitor were DR.. Royal S. Copeland,
Health Commissioner; DR.. LefTert Nc
Clelland, DR.. John Storer and DR..
Walter Cramp. In an extemporaneou
speech DR.. Lorenz spoke of the reason
for his presence in this country, his
desire to repay in kind the mercy and
kindness America had rendered his
destitute Austria.
Sixty Physicians Watch Him
A clinic at the Broad Street Hos
pital followed the luncheon. Here he
demonstrated to sixty or more visit
ing physicians the Lorenz technique,
examining fifty patients and selecting
three for operations. Clinics ars to
be held regularly at the Broad Street
Hospital.
Or. Letfert McCleiland, Of the Broad
Street institution, is one Of the most
insistent that to ge. tho full benefit
Of the boon OF the surgeons presence
the city will have to practice some
foresight.
"He is OVERRIDING it," DR.. McClel-
land said when DR.. Lorenz had finally
pushed his way out past the persons
who stood imploring in his way. "No
man can stand the physical strain
under which he is laboring. If I have
my way shall get him to leave town
for few days. He will break down
If he keens this naca nm