East Oregonian : E.O. (Pendleton, OR) 1888-current, 1921-12-12
DR.. L()RENZ'S NEW
METHODS ARE AID TO
CRIPPLED CHILDREN
Great Bloodless Surgeon Says
Science Has Been Revolu-
tionized Since Operation.
BY MARGERY REX
(Written for International News
Service.)

I W Tltttu lhI lultTlditOntt news
Service.)
NEW YORK, Dec. l2.-Rates of eX-
change may wipe out the wealth OF
one country and initiate the currency
of another in comparison.
But human service is coin which
never falls below the par value of shin,
ing gold.
To the crippled children of America
Professor Adolf Lorenz, master Of
blooiless surgery and specialist in
joint diseases, is offering aid. 1t is
such aid as was brought to the Grip
pied daughter of a millionaire packer
eighteen years ago. when DR.. Lorenz
was brought from Vienna to Chicago
by j ogden Armour to enable his lit
lie daughter, Lolite, TO gain use of her
limbs.
And ii is even more than that since
DIR. Lorenz declares his methods in
bloodless, harmless surgery have been
much utilized since those days.
The noted surgeon is sixty eight
years old now. He looks as Santa
Claus might if he were able to add
distinction TO Oenevolence - white
beard, rosy. clear skin, light blue
keen eyes,
Great Changes in Everything
Those eighteen years have brought
great changes-yes, indeed" DR.. Lo-
REM began. But what a change in
New York City!
This is truly the City of Light
Paris used to be called that, but in
that respect it cannot compare with
modern New York.
Life here is all in a tumult; it is
terrible and bewldering to me. The
rush, the hustle and the noise. II Is
undoubtedly bad for the nerves of
New Workers, but they seem to SUR
vive."
Dr.. Lorenz win continue for some
time the clinic begun by him AZ the
Hospital for Joint Diseases.
Scores of crippled children come to
the great surgeon there, and it is esti-
mated that nearly seven hundred let
ters a day have been received at the
hotel where he is staying.
Technique has been revolutionized
since my first visit here" the special
list continued, "but harmlessness is
characteristic of 1t all, Other people
may say. DO you want to take a
chance and have an operation Well,
there is no risk attendant here.
But your poor New York children
so many of them-thrown all in a
heap by infantle paralysis am using
some new methods and experiments to
assist them,
Limbs can be str0ightend by man
ual traction and mechanical means.
Eventually 'transplantation can take
place. Healthy muscles can be as
easily removed from a healthy limb
and placed in q sickly one as rosebuds
can he grated and replanted. Hip
joints that are deformed can be set
straight--that has always been my
specially.
Great Suffering In Vienna
'But there is also suffering in my
home-Vienna. The dearth of supplies
continues. The decreased value of the
kronen prevents buying even such
supplies are are offered in the shops. /
WAR profiteers, of course, live in q
shameless, splendor. The brain work.
ers are badly off.
"The former prosperous class to
which ! was supposed to belong (witll
u laugh) has lost everything"
At this point DR.. s. Weyman, whom
DR.. Lorenz has appointed as his as-
sistant, told me that the great sur
geon was not worth even one thou
sand dollars today.
"My fortune is reduced TO one-
thousandth of what it was formerly
he said. 1T cost me two and a half
billion kronen to come over to AM
erica.
Austria has about enough supplies
to last out a month. 1t is not a fertile
land, but mountainous-what fertile
provinces we had we have lost.
I'VE must import three-fourths OF
must be bought in the world markets
with our worthless kronen, six thou
sand of which would barely buy ono
dollar.
I'VE owe much to your fine Amer
lean Relief administration, TO the Jew
ish Relief and the Red Cross.
Afraid Of New York Subway
"Would | like to live in New York. .
DR.. Lorenz smiled. We'll like
America, but the hustle Of this city
terrifies me. As for that subway that
runs under the grond, / would never
trust myself to go down with lis
crowds, / know / should never, never
come ont alive"
DR.. Lorenz spends four and a hall
hours a day at the clinic at the hospi-
tai for joint diseases, where an entire
floor has been placed at his disposal
After his work here is finished h,
will go to Chicago. On his way h
will stop off at Muffalo, Cleveland and
Detroit, where clinics win be arrang
ed
In Chicago | am going ID see Mrs
John j. Mitchell, who was Miss 10
lita Armour when ] knew her" de
clared DR.. Lorenz. 81 was invited 4
herr wedding but couldn't come on n
that time"
At the time DR.. Lorenz performed
an operation on Lolita Armour and ef
,fected a cure he became information