Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-13
FRIEDMAN CURE
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ALBANIAN
DR.. Louis C. ROugIin Calls
Germans Claim of White
Plague Remedy False.

DR.. Louis c. Rouglin, of Atlanta,
widely known as a specialist in diseases
of the lungs, today spared no rhetoric
in denouncing the so-called cure for
tuberculosis reported to have been dis
covered by Dr. Frederick Frank Fried
mann, the Berlin physician, now in
New York
DR., Rouglin said in emphatic terms
that the Berlin doctors claims are
false.
There is no longer reason to wait
for results in the treatment of patients
injected with this serum for which
friedman claims so much" said DR..
Rouglin.
Calls Secrecy Senseless.
This Friedman is evidently a fraud
or at least promulgates most peculiar
ethics in connection with his practice
of medicine. Why the secretiveness
Why the continued delay in telling sci
ence what he claims TO have discover
ed? His .dallying is senseless and at
the same time dangerous.
IF this man, practically unknown
until a reporter brought him into the
limeight has discovered even rem
edy, let alone cure for tuberculosis,
it belongs to him no more than does
the air, the sky-any of Gods gifts.
His first duty is to mankfnd-not DIR.
Friedman. Science will monetarily
support him if his wares establish his
claims. If his claims do not bear out
all he has said in regard to his cure.
no one is the loser-save Friedman
and what is one man in the march of
scientific progress?
Let Him Work-Not Talk"
Martyrs have died in pursuing the
problems of science. Let Friedman
work-not talk. If his cure is real. let
him release 1t at once to the world.
If it IS not, let him acknowledge his
error at once to the world This is no
time for talk and inaction. Too much
depends upon the question Of stamp
ing out tuberculosis to allow interIop-
ers with cures to tamper with the
problem. Too many lives hang by
threads to permit the trafficking in
human souls such as Friedman might
attempt If he has no cure
II. for one, am convinced he has no
cure. I have read news reports Of his
demonstration Of the Friedman serum
in the New York hospital and | am
quite as willing to believe the state
ments Of such men as DR.. Woods
Hutchinson that the man is a fraud as
am TO believe the declaration Of !
paid secretary that DR.. Friedman has
a Cure-will in time turn It over for
scientific investigation and that sort Il
thing
Serum Only Remedy.
From a purely scientific basis-one
entirely too complicated for the Law
mind am assured in my own heart
that the extraction of an -tubercu-
losis serum from a sea turtle to cure
consumption is not compatible with
truth. Such a serum has been produce /
before. 1t IS a known remedy for con-
sumption. but it is no cure. Fifteen
years before Friedman was heard
from, an obscure German laboratory
man had developed remedy from tur-
tie serum. He made claim to no cure.
Science took up his formula and theory
tried 1t out and found it efficacious in
cases OF tubercuIars who were in the
first stages of the disease. To claim
it a cure was putting it entirely too
strong.
Surely. this man Friedman cannot
expect US to swallow all Of his bait.
1t is entirely too mysterious a MOUTH
full, as yet"
Raps Injection Discovery.
Just one more thing. Friedman
has no right TO the claim that he is the
first man to have discovered that in
lection of tuberculosis baccili into the
veins or muscles could be used as m
aid in the fight against tuberculosis.
The first man who really discovered
this was Trodeau. an American Of Sar-
anac Lake, who, in 1900, put forward
this assertion and his experiments were
borne out by results later.
Altogether friedman has nothing
new to shOw-nothing new in technique
or theory. All this press agent stuff
he has been getting is mere talk-noth-
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