The legacy of Professor Adolf Lorenz, the "bloodless surgeon of Vienna"

Robert W. Jackson, OC, MD, FRCSC, and Fabian E. Pollo, PhD

Dr. Adolf Lorenz, an internationally famous orthopaedic surgeon from Vienna, was the honored guest at the annual meeting of the American Medical Association held in New Orleans in 1903. This is the story of how Dr. Lorenz' subsequent visit to Dallas became the inspiration for the Texas Baptist Memorial Sanitarium, which developed into Baylor University Medical Center and Baylor Health Care System.