Rensselaer Semi-Weekly Republican, Volume 35, Number 18, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 31 October 1902 — TO MAKE A CHILD WALK. [ARTICLE+ILLUSTRATION]

TO MAKE A CHILD WALK.

This Man Crossed the Ocean and Will Receive SBO,OOO. The Interest of a large part of the med-ico-surgical fraternity of this country and Europe has lately been directed toward

Chicago, where Dr. Adolf Lorenz, having come all the way from Vienna, is endeavoring to create in Lolita Armour the power to walk. This grandchild < f Phil Armour, the fatuous meat man, nnd daughter of .T. Ogden Armour, has from birth had a dislocated hip. Some of the greatest snrgeotis in this coun-

try have been consulted in the hope that relief might come to her, and two years ago an operation was performed. A fortune had been promised the surgeon if he succeeded. A few months ago Mrs. Armour was iu Vienna, and she Lorenz, who is the head of the department of orthopaedic surgery iu the University of Vienna. She engaged him to come to tliis country nnd treat her child, the inducement she held out to him. in ’the event of his success, being $20,000. He accepted the offer and the operation was recently performed. He drew the afflicted limb down so that the hip bone came 1* low the socket of the hip, into which it ought normally to fit. The limb will be enclosed in plaster of paris six months,

but the child will not be permitted to remain inactive during that time. She will be required to take exercise, nnd that exercise, assisted by nature, will bring about the junction of the bone. At the end of six months. Dr. ,-Loronz says, the child will be able to walk. He has performed more than 300 such opera-

tions. Since operating on the Armour child lie has performed similar operations bn many poor children. There was no eharge for these, which were merely to demonstrate the method employed be•fore the Medical Society of Chicngo. With a long, flowing beard, high forehead nnd fine carriage, Dr. Lorenz looks ns though he might be a modern reincarnation of Aesculaputs. He speaks’fluently several languages, has kindly eyes and mnrvels at the greatness of the United States.

DR. ADOLF LORENZ.

LOLITA ARMOUR