CORE FOR HIP DISEASE.

Te Aroha News, Volume XII, Issue 1790, 27 November 1895, Page 2

CORE FOR HIP DISEASE.

Surgical science has scored a fresh success, a new method of healing congenital luxation of the hip joint having been discovered by the well-known Vienna professor of surgery. Dr. Lorenz., The deformity caused by this luxation has up to a recent date been considered incurable. Under the old treatment some of the muscles moving the hip joint were always injured by the operation, the child always retaining a limping gait, and no perfect healing was obtainable. By his demonstration of the treatment before a meeting of German naturalists and surgeons recently, Professor Lorenz appears to have solved the problem of re-placing the hip joint in ike normal position, and at the same time of saving, in the operation, all those muscles which formerly had to be sacrificed. The operation has now been performed 109 times with perfect success, and a the gathering of savants mentioned no fewer than thirty-four poor children who had been treated were presented as illustrations of successful cures. Amongst these were five who had been operated upon on both sides, and not a trace of limping was observable. There were children who had under gone the operation only four or fiv; days before, already able to walk fairly, and there were those treated a year ago walking gracefully, and exhibiting excellent form of body.