The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-07
SQUARE DEAL FOR
DR.. FRIEDMAN
Physicians Who Arc Not Too chesty
Begin to Tire OF Criticism
Heaped Upon the
German.
CITE SOME COMPARISONS
Pasteur and Koch. Went Through
Same Trying Experience But Arc
Now Honored by
All.

i limited Press Leased Wire Service.
NEW YORK, March 7.--Despite the
fact that number of the physicians
who Witnessed the tests by DR.. +. +.
Friedman yesterday of his anti-tuber /
culosis bacilli insisted that they iio
not believe the method was really al
cure, the majority of the disinteresk-
ed doctors in the city were insistent
today that the time had cone when
the visiting savant should have al
square deal They bitterly criticised
the manner in which some Of the ply
sicians permitted themselves to be-
quoted on the treatment and pointed
out some comparisons that they de-
| iclared paralleled the present case
| One of these doctors, a power in
the medical profession, who refused
for ethical reasons to permit his
name to be mentioned, said that he
believed it would take at least three
1 months and thousand patients to
demonstrate the exact worth of tbs
/ remedy
The suggestion Of some OF the doc
tors who witnessed the tests that DR..
friedman did not have an up-to-datc
4 hypodermic needle Is a joke" he says.
L There is no comparison between our
surgical appliances here and those
abroad. Here we spend million oil
lslars to equip a hospital. Everything
is of the best. Over there they dc
not do so. And what has little nickle
plating ON syringe to do with its
availability.
Il studied under Pasteur In Paris.
He was living in a garret. And when
four children we're sent from Newark
to be treated the newspapers denoun.
ced the French scientist bitterly. Ana
now, although the efficacy of the
!, treatment has been demonstrated be
, yond the shadow of a doubt, there are
many who insist that it is a failure
And was anyone ever more bitter.
ly ridiculed than DR.. Prof. Koch!
Why, he was publicly proclaimed
| fakir and imposter and his heart was
, broken. Yet today his specific is ap
: solute and one single drop In the eye
shows whether true tuberculosis is
present.
! "One Of these doctors who rushed
! into print today is quoted as saying
2 that he stood twelve feet away an6
/ was certain that none Of the bacill
e was administered. Now the dose was
t four minums. Is there any one ply
i sician who could tell by casua
+ glance whether such an infitesima
dose was administered hypodern1ica,
il ly? Such criticism Is unworthy thu
medical profession
Three Patients.
NEW YORK, March Thousand
of victims of tuberculosis, hundreds
! Of them having come from all parts o
@ the country seeking treatment at thu
a hands Of DR. Friedman, the youns
, German physician, today, were HOPING
/ be chosen as patient of the scient
1 ist. AT the same time their interes
- was centered in the cases of tw'
men and woman, the first to receiy
the Friedman treatment In this coun
try.
Extraordinary scenes marked th
. first injection of the friedman GU
: ture to the three patients yesterday
= Today, the German savant was still
= nervous and unstrung, and while som
= of the physicians who witnessed th
a demonstration yesterday openly de
q nounced DR.. Friedman, others de
a clared that he was in no conditio
q physically to supervise the injectio
. of his culture, much less to administe
a the treatment himself
a Though medical circles were grea
q lly stirred today by the incidents a
4 tending DR. Friedmann's first den
4 onstration, the more conservativ
q element still maintained an open min
q on the subject Inasmuch as sampl
a of the Friedman culture is now |
q the hands of the health commission
9 ers and three patients have receive
a first treatment they believe furthe
q Developments should be awaited b
. fore any judgment is passed 1t is Vi
. derstocd that about fourteen day
. must elapse before the first iniectio
4 will show any effect on the patient
y threatened
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