Word: lorenz
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Dates: during 1920-1929
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...tall, grey, compassionate, merry surgeon was Dr. Adolf Lorenz, Austrian orthopedist...
...Lorenz returned to the U. S. two months ago (TIME. Jan. 18). He came boldly. Withal in the back of his mind was memory of distress. On his previous visit in 1921 and 1922 the U. S. medical profession had thrown such obloquy over him that for a time his good humor became only a mask. He had come to repay with his surgical skill the protection and aid U. S. munificence had afforded Austrian War-emaciated children. His method of correcting congenital deformity of the hip was "bloodless," that is, he did not use the knife. His procedure...
...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...
...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...
Died. Emanuel Lorenz Philipp, 64, onetime (1915-21) Governor of Wisconsin, Republican and arch enemy of the late Senator LaFollette; in Milwaukee of a heart attack. In 1908, he sued McClure's Magazine for $100,000 for libel in publishing articles accusing him of lobbying and receiving improper commissions from a railroad. He won a verdict...