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ADOLF, an orthopædic surgeon of Vienna, Austria. In 1880 he became assistant to Professor Albert, who occupied the chair of surgery at the University of Vienna. Instead of taking up general surgery he specialized in orthopædic surgery. He became famous as the "bloodless surgeon" because of his reduction of the dislocation of the hip joint by manipulation rather than cutting. In 1902 he visited the United States and England, holding clinics in the more important hospitals.
LORETO (lō-rātō), an interior department of Peru, in the N. E. part of the Republic, watered for thousands of miles by the Marañon and its tributaries; area (est.) 288,500 square miles; pop. (est.) 100,000 (chiefly Indians). Vast portions of the department are still unexplored, being covered with thick forests. The climate is hot and unhealthy. Chief products: rubber, salt, quinine, tobacco, tropical fruits. Capital, Iquitos.
LORETTO (lō-ret'tō), or LORETO, a city of Italy, in the province of Ancona, about 15 miles S. E. of Ancona. It is a famous resort of pilgrims, who come to visit the Casa Santa or Holy House of Loretto, which is said to have been the house of the Holy Family at Nazareth, and to have been miraculously conveyed by the angels first to Fiume in Dalmatia, and afterward to Loretto. The Holy House is in the center of a beautiful church built by Majano and Bramante (1464-1587). The number of pilgrims amounts to 50,000 yearly. The town is the seat of a bishop since 1586. Pop. about 7,000.
L'ORIENT (lō-ryong'), a seaport in the French department of Morbihan; on a good bay; 116 miles N. W. of Nantes; is a well-built town, with a deep and LORIMER LOS ANGELES spacious harbor; founded in 1664 by the University at Caracas. It is at Mérida, French East India Company; but, after and has professors, doctors, and honorary the ruin of their trade by the English members. toward the close of the next century, their plant was acquired by the government, who since 1815 have made L'Orient the principal naval shipbuilding yard in France; the dockyard and arsenal are consequently among the best and largest in the country and the place ranks as a fortress of the second class; has schools of navigation and marine artillery, and It