The San Francisco call., 1898-01-02
.OXYTUBERCULIN
 THEIR SAVIOR
Now City and County Hospital Patients Don Defensive
 ArnlOP.
Claim Great Things for the Lymph Roast Buckley and Bennoan
 Their Food.

Unsolicited, but lacking none the less in fervency of statement, come refutations from patients at the City and County Hospital who have taken umbrage at the statement of Dr. Buck ley, made in morning paper, to the effect that ali who are taking Dr. Htrschfelder's oxytuberculln are being slowly poisoned. The answers to Dr. Buckley's charges take the form of in- div1dual letters to The Call, accom- panied by the statement that all are undergoing the treatment voluntarily and leave off taking it whenever they feel so inclined. They embrace the op- portunity to take a general whack at the hospital table fare with a ven- geance.
 The names of the writers are David Harrison, Thomas P. Larkin. Frederic Tedtmeier, Edward Delee, F. D. Rob- erts and John P. Anderson. They all express gratitude at the benefit they nave received from the medicine, and not only say they have come to Hlrschfelder's defense as a matter of common gratitude, but strongly infer their fear that the 'unwarranted at- tacks made on the physician may lead to a cessation of their treatment by somebody or other interfering.
 Tedtmeier states that he went to the hospital, expecting to die, but im- proved immediately upon the lymph pelng injected into his system, and has continued to improve until to-day he comes near being well man.
 Anderson asserts that on his arrival at the institution he was so weak he couid hardly stand At that time he weighed 1S3 pounds. but has now in- creased Tn weight to 150 pounds, has got rid of a severe cough and other symptoms of pulmonary disease and
 wants everybody to know it."
 Larkin asseverates that he was aIst, greatly reduced in weight and felt very discouraged, but to-day has his normal weight and feels like a new man after undergoing the treatment.
 harrlson believes the article of Dr. buckiey 10 have been"venomous with spite. He says his condition was such that he had been advised before co,,oinr here from Vallejo that there was no nope left After three months trear- ment, he writes, T felt so strong that thought l could pull through a hos pital diet" He thinks pr. Buckley should devote his time to improving eAe.I Sdlie ultC instead or making at- tacks on Hirschfelder.
 Delee says he has undergone tba treatment for a month. Prior to that tlrne he could not walk a block without being out of breath. He was losing in weight, suffering from night sweats ana coughing continually To-day" ne writes, all these distressing symp- toms have disappeared and can boast of running up two flights of stairs" Roberts wants mo protection from the public" in his. He says he went to the hospital to die, as one lung was gone and the other "a shred" Hirsch- fielder, according to the writer. at first refused treatment, on the ground that he could not give a man new lungs The patient insisted on treatment. and notwithstanding the fact that he suf fered from a complication of other diseases and had fallen from an eighty-six-foot bridge, he claims to he progressing rapidly on the road to health
 Thus, it can be seen that whether or not Dr. Kuhlman, the great polemist IS to have opposition to his fight against Hirschfelder in the County Medical Society or not, the man that fell from bridge and the others out at the City and County Hospital are pre- pared to gird up their Joins and go forth to battle for oxytuberculin and HirSchfelder, Buckley or no RucL,Iav