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..Lorenz and His Methods...
So much attention has been directed
to the doings of Dr. Lorcnz, the Vien
na ffurgeon, that The Commoner read
ers may be interested in a description
of his methods printed in the New
York Press and written by Victor
Smitli. Mr. Smith's article is as fol
lows: Some call him lo-RENZE, some LO
rons, some LAW-rens, some LAH
rents, some Lah-RENTS. It makes
no difference. The Viennese is no
giant. I expected to see a Goliah. He
was a very tender little street Arab,
playing the violin for crowns and
florins. The exercise of fingering tho
strings must have given his left hand
its power of manipulation in blood
less surgery.
. In his immaculate white toga he
looks less like a butcher than many
eminent masters of the scalpel and
saw. His arm, bared to tho elbow, is
brown and hairy. His wrist is flat
and broad, a wrist for Strength. His
hair, once reddish-brown, genuinely
Cisleithan, is fringed with white. His
beard is not nearly so big and bushy
as it appears in his pictures. His mod
est habit of looldng down has given
his neck a forward set and his shoul
ders a stoop. He is neither imposing,
impressive nor commanding.
. You would not turn to look at him
a second time in the street In the
operating theatre 400 eyes critically
observed him. The benches, made of
structural steel, slate and gaspipe, are
in tiers so steep that their occupants
presented an almost vertical wail of
faces.
A few well-gowned, , middle-aged
women were there, besides, half a doz
en clean-cut, white-capped, white
aproned nurses. The visiting women
may have been doctresses. Dr. Virgil
P. Gibney, who is as strong as a bull
moose and as hardy as a red roller in
a steel mill, made a bluff and hearty
master of ceremonies. "When he es
corted Dr. Lorcnz into the pit there
was an enthusiastic round of hand
clapping, which being ended, he said
swinging his arm in 'a half circle:
"Gentlemen (and ladios): HE need?
no introduction!." Dead silence fol
lowed. The good doctor had ajmost
overlooked the women. Dr. Lorenz
addTosoed "Gentlemen" only, taking
no notice of the women.
After a short preface be read from
a formidable mass of typewritten copy.
Dr. Lorenz's first subject was brought
in upon a table by two white-robed
attendants and transferred from that
to the operating table. It looked like
a corpse of a little girl. He'r hair
seoraed very black and her skin very
white, excepting her face, which wat
flushed. Her stertorous breathing be
neath the ether cone, held by a voung
doctor, indicated the fast approaching
end of her struggle against the anes
thetic. Presently, with a sigh, she
passed into that state of temporary
death which knows no pain. Then Dr.
Lorenz, remarking quietly. "Gentle
men, we have no time to lose," laid
down his manuscript and set to work.
At timee I felt liko shooting trw
Viennese. It was beyond my belief
that a delicate, crippled, sick child
could hold .together tinder the fierce
twisting, bending, stretching, hauling,
Don't Scold.
Irritability is a nervous affection.
Strengthen the nerves with Dr. Miles'
Nervine. Sleep better, eat better,
work better, feel better, and be better.
Bold an puar&utee. Boole on nfcrves for poBtal.
Dk, Miles Medical Co., Elkhart, Ind.
crushing and wringing of two power
ful men Lorenz and Mueller. It was
like a breaking on the wheel.- It was
like a crucifixion. To follow the de
monstration required every ounce of
moral courage and will power that I
possess. And those critical surgeons
sat there with happiness lathered on
their faces. Fifty of them were past
45; the rest, about 150, were between
25 and that age. To look at them you
I would have believed them capable of
more concern at a cat fight
Dr. Lorenz speaks fair English, but
is hard to follow. His demonstration
was tedious because of his effort to
explain the minutiae of every detail.
His thirty minutes seemed as 'many
hours to me, because I feared he might
kill the baby. At last the climax. Did
you ever try to break a hambone
across your knee, or across a billet
of wood? There was a round-edged
piece of maple on the table, about tho
size of a brick. When the child's hip
was placed upon tills, and Dr. Lorenz,
one hand on the abdomen, the other on
the thigh, laid all of his 195 pounds
thereon, it was evident that some
thing must give way. Even those blase
surgeons loaned forward expectantly
and ceased for the moment looking so
weary and satiated. Then came to
every ear a sound as of a man throw
ing his ankle out of joint, and we all
knew that the poor little cripple's aw
ful deformity was cured. The head of
the femur had entered the cup-shaped
cavity of the acetabulum, which had
been denied it since birth. And thono
surgeons who looked so tired of life
actually clapped hands and said
"Bravo!"
Dr. Lorenz could have finished the
demonstration in five minutes had he
so desired. But the labor is terrific.
It is a simple matter of hands and
fingers and weight The Viennese was
greatly exhausted. It makes an ordi
nary person feel queer to see this man
correct in a few minutes deformities
that have existed for years, and that
by the mere "laying oh of hands!'
The Viennese is no hypnotist, mesmer
ist, or worker of miracles. He pre
tends to no divinity. But wouldn't
you rather have his hands than all
the millions of little old Carnegie?-
Dr. Mueller works like a Trojan and
seems never to tire. His enthusiasm
never flags. The instant Dr. Lorenz's
hands drop after the completion of
the dlarthrosis Dr. Mueller summons
half a dozen nurses and proceeds to
place the subject in plaster. His meth
od is a liberal education in the plas
tic art. His rapidity is a marvel.
The poor little thing's legs and body
are hermetically sealed, so to speak,
the limbs noarly at right angles to the
body, in which position they are to
remain for six or seven months, liow
on earth the child recovers from the
bruising and awful discoloration of
the tissues is to me x mystery. If I
were so abused my sufferings would bo
acute for many days without plaster.
Imagine your pain in a vise! Gods!
Imagine the anguish of a child on re
covering from the ether and its ut
ter helplessness in suffering!
Before the plaster sets Dr. Mueller
cuts certain openings with a hook
billed knife, and does it with so 'free
a hand that I tremble lest the blade
go too deep and butcher the child.
But he knows his business. He-is a
master workman. Dr. Lorenz. ex
plains, while the plastor is being put
on, that the child will be able in ji
few weeks to anmsq itself ty pushing
across the floor 'a small table or chair
on rollers sitting on dither and usin
the feet as propellers. I suppose that
is nearly tho limit of amusement for
months. Above the belt its move-
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Dr. Lorenz has all along insisted
that a patient who had been success
fully treated should be instructed to
walk without crutches, so that the limb
could get a chance to develop natural
ly as soon as possible and sustain it
own weight. He thinks too much de
pendence cati bo placed on crutches,
and while demonstrating yesterday he
told a story.
"When I was in Salt Lake City'
he said, "I was called downstairs in
the hotel to see a case. There sat a
girl about 16,, weeping, and an older
brother was also in tears. I asked
what the trouble was, and she sain
that two years ago she ftll and hurl
her, hip and had had to use crutches
ever since. "I examined her later in a
hospital a"nd found not the slightest
trace of injury. She had pain when
she fell, two years before, and startPd
to use crutches, aijfV after that im
agined shQ couldpA'get along without
them. I threjr them away and told
her to walk and she did.. That is tho
only miracle I have performed In
America."
Indecent Politics. ,
The high rates imposed by the Ding
ley act have had the excuse of bein
made so for purposes of trading in
reciprocity. But now that they are
well fastened upon the country, modi
fication through reciprocity is denied.
This is -not statesmanship. It fs not
even decent politics. 'It is trickery of
a pretty low order. The so-called
friends of the tariff can be depended
on never to revise it except in an up
ward direction. Revision will havo
to come, if at all, through the so-called
enemies of the tariff, who, after all,
are likely to prove its best friends.
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favors already granted never fail to
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