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Show 81MPLICITY OF DR. LORENZ. Great Surgeon In No Way Inflated by His Success. Probably no ono who has encountered encoun-tered Dr. Adolf Lorenz, tho eminent Vienna surgeon, has failed to bo struck with a certain simplicity In his manner that differentiates him from tho moro familiar typo of medical men In this country, whose sphlnx-llko vis-ago vis-ago and air of lmpcnctrnblllty mako of him a colossal mystery to tho layman. Dr. Lorenz appears to bo frankness impersonated. Ho is Just a man who has by haul work learned to do a thing or two better than anybody else, and Is not at nil pulled up about It. Not a young doctor saw him operate but was greatly P"thused and encouraged. encour-aged. And throiibh ull bis clinical work thoro has run a refreshing current cur-rent of humor that on occasions has fairly convulsed his heaped-up audiences. audi-ences. At ono clinic Dr. Lorenz was explaining ex-plaining how a llttlo girl who had been operated on for double dislocation of the hip, would bo nblo to movo around in play, notwithstanding that her legs woro held by plaster casts nt right angles an-gles with her body, with tho limbs freo to movo only below tho knee, To tho amazement of everybody there, particularly tho big wigs of tho profession, pro-fession, Dr. Lorenz, to Illustrate, assumed as-sumed a squatting attitude, with his legs Is a pusltton llko that of tho llttlo girl, and executed a comical hlpplty-l hlpplty-l hop mound' tho room. "JJUo a lectio tnad," he said, In his dislocated lCnRllsh, and a roar of laughter went over tho assemblage New Yoik Mnll and Expross, |