Yorkville enquirer. [volume] (Yorkville, S.C.) 1855-2006, 1921-12-16
HEALER and TEACHER
Intimate Sketch Of Worlds Greatest
So. ,o, 0rib0pedlSt.
NOT RECOGNIZED BY MEDICAL MEN


Gratitude for Assistance to Starving
Children - Thousands Have Beer
FIoekins to Him for Help.
Everyone who has seen DR.. Adolph
I.orenz, the Vienna surgeon, at work
in the hospitals of New York is con-
scious that while he is engaged in ex-
amining and treating hundreds OF
children who are brought to see him
he is a'so doing q great work of teach
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Physicians of the hospitGl", outside
physicians and the young internes fol-
low him from cot to cot and listen
eagerly to all his diagnoses ard to his
informal comments on the cases, and
on life in general. The professor" as
many of the physicians call him, es-
pecially those who knew him on his
former visit OF who have studied with
him in Vienna, is an enthusiast and
his enthusiasm is highly contagious.
Cynical young internes in the early
twenties who are pretty sure that they
know just about all there is to know
in medicine and who may regard DR..
Lorenz when he enters ward with
rather unawakened curiosity, bit by
bit begin to brighten as he talks and
examines the children, pointing out
something that might be done here.
something that might be done there
to make a little cripple walk better
to,relieve pain or to straighten small
twisted body. Eyes grow eager, faces
become alert The youthful pretense
of stolidity and over sophistication Is
swept aside.
His Influence Great.
Once more the miracle OF the great
teacher has been wrought. Uneon-
ssctously the men of his own profess
sion, stepped often in the discourage
ment of their contact with fncurable
cases. become imbued with DIR. Lo-
renz's own indomitable faith.
while there's life there's hopef
seems to be the message that they are
all receiving from their encounters
with DR.. Lorenz.
Viennese physician is a striking and
impressive figure as he enters the hos
pital ward Tall and square, with
white hair and beard, he stands out
among men, and brings quickly to the
mind the. thought that age may be far
more beautiful than youth. Chiefly
this impression is due to the eager
expression of his fine, intellectual face.
But he is also a handsome man with
fine aqJinine features, a clean, fresh
completion and bright blue eyes. The
children IN the hospitals are told, by
the doctors. who know him to look for
the big man with the beard, and they
are never, disappointed at the appear-
arice OF the big physician for whose
coming, they have waited.
The doctor enters the hospital doors
alta rapid gait like q man who has no
time 70 waste, Mounting to the floor
where he is to see the children ne
strides into the first ward prepared
to receive him and begins to take. OFT
fis.hat and coat, Unless there is some
one on hand to stop him he is quite as
likely to deposit these outer garments
on, the floor, from which a reverent
nurse or inferno rescues them.
Then over to the first surgical COT
where a child lies waiting, q crippled
ehild ready in a surgical robe for in
spection. The youngster usually holds
in his hand the card which gives such
information as the hospital authorities
have gathered as to his condition, and
DR.. Lorenz looks this over hastily.
Feels His Way to knowledge.
1t is then a question of legs and
arms. With wonderfully expert man
mutation of the faulty joints and
limbs DR.. Lorenz feels his way TO a
first hand knowledge Of the case.
suddenly up goes leg, tossed so swift
ly by the doctor that the foot OF the
chihl is just as likely as not to strike
lightly UP into the face of bystander'
GIVE me, give me-" murmurs the
Doctor to the child, and the child IN
yariably understands somehow that
phrase. expressed in DIR. LorenzS
slightly foreign English, means that
he Is to relax as much rs possible ana
let the physician do what he Will with
1he crippled limb.
Teaching goes Oh in conjunction
with the examinations. Perhaps there
nay he thirty or forty children lying
out.on the surgical cot waiting exam
nation. DR.. Lorenz finds one of them
suffering from a difficulty which in
. wolves the big bone of the leg. "A
blackboaird is sent for. On this, draw
ing pidTy, he shows the bone and its
Joint and eagerly describes the. con-
dition and method of cure in the man.
ner employed in medical clinics gen
orally. ..
D., But his illustration goes beyond the
usual. Suddenly a physician standing
near, who has shown much interest IN
the demonstration finds his forefingcr
seized upon and wagged back and forth
and around and about by DR.. Lorenz.
For the moment the forefingcr is play
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