Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16
SPOKEN LIKE A MAN
Greatest Surgeon in the World Com
mends Dr., lorenz.

Pinehurst. n. c., Dec. 14.-"Hun-
dreds of crippled children hidden away
in secret hooks ard crannies Of the
city of New York, and whose plight
was utterly unknown to the medical
men and institutions of the city, arc
creeping hopefully forth into the light
at the call of that modern pied piper
of Hamlin, DR.. Adolf Lorcnz. DR.. Lo-
REM should be helped and encouraged
in his great work by every surgeon,
physician and hospital authority in the
country"
The foregoing statement was made
by Dr. Charles IL. Mayo. probably the
greatest surgeon in the world, in tho
course of a statement this evening at
Pinchurst, where he is attending the
34th annual meeting of the Southern
Surgical association. o..
DR.. Mayo stepped altogether
the charges of uncthical and unpro-
fcssional conduct brought against Dr..
LorcnZ.
Many of my colleagues throughout
the country" said DR.. Mayo, "arc con-
sidcrably wrought up over the ques-
tion as to whether Dr. Lorcnz or n
hospital or a few men who ii has been
said arc exploiting Dr.. Lorenz for their
benefit, were making or are now maxi
ing money and professional capital in
an uncthiCal or unprOfessional manner
in connection with Dr. LorenZ's visit
here and its enormous attendant pub
licity. Personally, | am not greatly
Interested in that phase OF the Ques-
tion and do not know much about it.
But what | do know and what every
other medical man in the country must
realize, if he stops 10 think about il, is
that the publicity attendant on DR.. Lo-
renzs work in New York and his pro-
iected tour of the country is bringing
or is bound to bring into the light,
thousands of cases of crippled chill
dren whose infirmities. partly through
ignorance or Il feeling Of hOpelcSsness
on the part Of their parents, have
h thertO been hidden from the doctors
and hospitals of their communities.
DR. I.orenZ is deeply versed and
widely experienced in his specially of
operative treatment of fractures,
dislocatiOnS and bone defOrmities. His
methods of treatment are of little or
no value in treating deformiues of the
soft parts of the body or those due to
nerve destruction, and he could not 1T
any rate personally treat more than
n, rnaps one in n hundred of the Cases
in his own line that may be brought 10
him. But If his visit to ;hls country
results i'll nothing more than the dis
closure of great numbers of hitherto
unknown cases, he will have achieved
4 great work. work that should be
encouraged by the authorities of every
state in the union and one that he can
safely leave to he carried on by the
medical profession of this country"
DR.. Mayo suggested that under
propcr control of an organized charity
il should be possible for the crippled
children of wealthy parents to sec Dr.
LOrenz and fund be thereby created
which could he used towards the Il!
nancin.s Of the often necessary pro.
longcd care and observation of the
cases of the poor.
He concluded with thc suggestion
that attacks on DR.. Lorcnz and OBJ
.starlcS placed i'm his way by members
of tho medical fraternity may cveTtu-
ally adversely affect the attitude of the
public at large towards the entire
medical profession Of the country.
Charlotte Observer.