Lorenz's Return

Dr. Adolf Lorenz, ingenious Austrian orthopedist, came to the U. S. four winters ago with a slick phrase, "bloodless surgery." Last week 72-year-old Dr. Lorenz came again with "Enjoy all vices in moderation." He came, he said, to note the progress of the cripples he treated in 1921-22 and possibly to operate on other cripples.

Dr. Lorenz came in 1921 with his sons, Albert and Conrad, as assistants. His intentions were to reduce, in clinic, skeletal deformities by manipulative surgery similar to his operation in Chicago 19 years before on Lolita Armour. He was world-famed for his technique; would do much good to some cripples; would attract medical and surgical students to his amphitheatre, students who might later attend his Viennese clinics to his legitimate profit as a teacher. But the press took him up; touted him throughout the land; raised fond hopes in hearts of cripples everywhere. These rushed to his free clinics. He was their Messiah. Back of his tired, wrinkled brow, back of his white beard and moustache, they saw only the kindly doctor. From overwork he almost broke down. Then the American Medical Association and other regular societies pitched on him, lambasted him, almost kept him from getting his license to practice in New York. Already, in 1902, Illinois had permitted him to practice.

Now in salutation he advises U. S. folk to work, play, sleep, live in moderation.