The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1912-12-15
WHITE PLAGUE
GAN Be CURED
Physicians All Over the World Are
Interested in the New Discovery
by Doctor Fried
mann.
NON vIRULENT BAcILLI
Children Can be lnoculated and Will
Then Be Immune From the
Terrible, Deadly
Disease
by Karl H. Won Wiegand, Berlin cor
respondent of the United Press.

icopouuouL vi tHe United FTSSS.
BERLIN, Dec. Is. Have thirty
years of research by the bacteriolog-
lists and physicians of the world final
ly been crowned by the discovery of
a cure for tuberculosis. is the question
that Is of highest interest to Berlin
physicians and interest in it is not
confined to Berlin. Inquiries have
come from all over the world since
Friedrich Franz Friedman a local,
practitioner, astounded the Berlin
Medical society by announcing that
he had not only discovered an abso-
lutte specific for tuberculosis, but that
inoculation with the serum evolved by
him insures immunity against the dis
ease.
Professor August Bier, perhaps the
most Noted surgeon and general prac-
titioner of Germany and head of the
medical staff of the University of Ber-
lin, said before the medical society:
Il have sent patients suffering from
tuberculosis to Mr.. Friedman and l
have no hesitancy in admitting that
| the results of his treatment have i'm
pressed me. However, I cannot say
that it has been proved to my salts
1 In the nature of things, such proof
will not be possible until more physic-
/ ians shall have had an opportunity to
use the serum themselves and observe
its workings"
Other physicians to support Fried
mann we're Professor Erich Muller,
1 head physician of the Berlin orphan
age; Professor C. L. Schleich, head OF
the great Virchow hospital; DR.. Kar-
i funkel, specialist for scrofula and
tuberculosis; Privy Councillors Kus-
1 ter and Heymann Professor Blaschko
and DIR. Goldberg.
Robert Koch discovered the tuber-
cular bacillus in 1882, and followed his
! discovery with research to find cure
Psychologists joined in the search
and it was eventually established that
the bacilli themselves contained spe-
cific curative substances to which the
name "antigene' was given. These
/ substances are of extreme sensitive
ness, while the noxious elements OF
| the bacilli are not easily destroyed
In an effort to turn to account the
antigene, Koch evolved tuberculin.
Koch believed for time that he
had discovered a specific against the
disease, and he was rewarded by the
government. But it eventually became
apparent that tuberculin was not the
specific Koch had believed, and its
chief use is now its employment as q
test to discover whether person is
suffering from tuberculosis.
4 DR.. Friedman began experimenting
several years ago in an effort to rem
DER tubercular bacilli harmless, while
retaining the specific curative sub
stances His study of bacteriology
and his personal experiments hat
easily convinced him thar you cam
kill live bugs with dead ones After
a number of failures he succeeded, he
asserts, in bringing into existence {
stock of bacilli which are absolutely
non-virulent, but retain the antigene.
DR. Friedman has inoculated more
i than 800 children whose heredity ant
surroundings make 1t unlikely tina
they will escape Infection He is more
enthusiastic over his belief that ht
can immunize against tuberculosis
than over the belief that he can cure
IL.