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CURE
For The White Plague Is
Found IN Berlin
A Physician Declares That
InocuIatiOn
viii Make 4 Person Immune
...1est 6S2 Patients

Berlin, Nov. 26--If Friedrich Franz
friedman, Berlin physician, has &C
oomplished what he asserts, he has not
only reached the goal that has been
the hearts desire Of every bacteriolo-
gist and physician since Robert Koch.
but has also gone beyond It to q sue
cess hitherto hardly dreamed Of.
DR.. Friedman asserts that he has
not only discovered cure for tuber.
culosis in every form, but that an in.
oculation with his remedy confers alb
solute immunity from the white
scourge. How long this immunity per.
sists he admits that he is unable to
say. but he points out that no physi.
clan is able to say how long vaccina-
tion confers immunity against small.
pox.
DIR. Friedman, who has been work.
ing for several years along these lines,
has Just announced the results Of his
research. The revolutionary nature
Of his assertions appears likely to di.
vide the worlds physicians into two
camps.
At q meeting Of the Berlin Medi-
cal Society this week Dr. friedman
explained the remedy and produced
patients alleged to have been cured
thereby.
DR.. Koch, who discovered the tn.
bercle bacillus, experimental, 1t will
be remembered, with methods Of cur.
ing tuberculosis by the employment OF
bacilli, but was baked in the attempt
to employ living bacilli by the impossi.
bility of depriving them Of virulence.
The result was obtained by reducing
bacillus cultures to about a tenth Of
their bulk by mechanical means. and
then filtering. 1t was believed at first
that he had discovered a cure, but
there are today few physicians who
regard tuberculin as Of any marked ef-
fcacy while probably the majority re.
ject 1t altogether.
The trend of medical opinion Of
late years has been to regard living
bacilli as alone worthy of considera-
tion as curative agents, and efforts
have been directed toward making
them non-virulent and at the same
time keeping them alive.
This is precisely what DR.. Fried
mann asserts he has done. He de-
clares that he has succeeded in cult.
waiting tubercle bacilli which. while re-
tanning the specific curtive substances
long known to be contained In them.
are absolutely free from toxins and
disease. producing elements.
After extensive experiments on AMI
mails and on himself, he began using
the culture on human patients. AT
first he injected simultaneously, but
later he adopted the method Of stimuli
taneous subcutaneous and venal injec'
tions.
In his report to the medical society
DIR. Friedman declared that he had
treated 682 tubercular patients, of
whom more than $50 were suffering
from pulmonary tuberculosis. In al
most every case there was an immedi
ate Improvement, and In large major
ity a complete cure.
DR.. Friedman exhibited to the Medi
cal Society patients whom by one te
three injections, he said, he had cured
Of pulmonary. skin. bone and articulal
tuberculosis and lupus, as well ai
. scrofula. He also exhibited some chill
; dren who, he declared. were the onl,
: members of tubercul0us families MOI
/. affected with disease, and had beer
protected by innoculation.
Among the members Of the Medica
. Society who, while holding the pro
verbal reserve regarding the alleged
! new discovery, testified to improve
ment, and even apparent cures II
many Of their own patients they hat
sent to DR.. Friedman. were Professo
Erich Muller, head physician Of tn
b. Berlin Orphan Aslyunn; Professor c
3 L. .schleieh, head Of the virchow Hos
t pital; Drs. Karfunkel. Kuester. ant
8 Heymann, and Professor Blaschke.
Professor August Bier Of the Berlil
J. University, one of Germany's leadinl
d physicians and surgeons, said:
II have sent large number OF pa
tients from my clinic to DR.. Fried
mann, who were suffering from var1
ous forms of tuberculosis. l admi
that have been greatly impresse'
d by the result, although l am not ye
> In. a position to say that 1t has beel
$ proved to me that DR.. Friedman cal
: cure tuberculosis. In the nature o
;. things such proof cannot be had unit
D more physicians have had an oppol
tunity to handle the remedy and OF
serve the results themselves. W.
must await that time before giving
Z verdict"