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Show FIVE MONTHS IN PLASTER. Qaby with Double Pre-Natal Dislocation Disloca-tion Made Perfect. Chester, N. Y. Mary l.iiBromh, thrco vears old, after undergoing ono or tho most remarkable operations ever performed per-formed In this country, will be discharged dis-charged from tho crozer hospital In n few days. The child was discovered nearly n year ago by u local physician, who ascertained that she was suffering suffer-ing with a double congenital dislocation disloca-tion or the lit p Joints, u serious prenatal pre-natal condition, from which no child bus ever recovered thoroughly by other oth-er than surgical treatment, and this In many Instnnces bus failed, until the famous bloodless method, ns demonstrated dem-onstrated by I.orenz, became known. Thu enso of Mary Lascomh was placed In tho bunds of Dr. I). I'. Mad-dox, Mad-dox, who called Into consultation Dr. Herbert L. Northrop, dean of tho Hahnomnnu medlcnl college, l'hlln-dolphin, l'hlln-dolphin, and It was decided to adopt tho I.orenz method. Tho hips nnd logs wero plnced In position and kept In n plaster east for five months, the cust being ro-moved ro-moved from tlmu to time. Now Mury Is nblu to romp along tho concroto lloors of the hospital corridors, having hav-ing been transformed from a hopeless cripple into an activo child. |