Background
LORENZ, Adolf was born on April 21, 1854 in Silesia.
LORENZ, Adolf was born on April 21, 1854 in Silesia.
Studied at Vienna University, Doctor of Medicine 1880. Docent of General Surgery, 1885. Doctor of Medicine.
Professor of General Surgery in Vienna, 1889. In consequence of carbolic intoxication he tried to get results in orthopedic surgery by bloodless methods, and tried with great success to make superfluous many mutilating operations by harmless manipulations under chloroform. In this way he taught the cure of hip-deformities and all forms of club foot in a rapid bloodless way, without bone resections.
In the same way he taught the cure of congenital dislocation of the hip joints by reducing the dislocated head of the femur without opening the joint and without deepening the socket. He wrote volumes on orthopedic subjects concerning different parts of this special branch of surgery. Imperial Royal Counsellor of the Austrian Government; Surgeon - in-Chief of the orthopedic department in the Imperial Royal General Hospital in Vienna.