The Pensacola journal. (Pensacola, Fla.) 1898-1985, 1913-05-10

scientific prenouncements supported
by convincing data.
I'm our series of patients. DIR. Fried
mann has almost exclusively made use
of the intramuscular method alone in
pulmonary cases and very consider
able proportion of them have either
developed no considerable iphltrate at
all or have suffered from abscess for
nations. 1t is evident therefore that
very considerable portion of these pa
tients may expect their treatment at
the hand of Dr. Friedman to extend
over q long period.
EXPERIMENTS UNDER WAY.
Concerning the cultures submitted
to us. we may state that a series OF
experiments are under way. The bac-
cilus has been found to be an acid fast
organism having properties quite diff
ferent from those of any tubercule
bacillus with which we are acquitted.
II apnears to be identical with an or
ganism cultivated from a few loop
fulls of the material used for inJec-
ton, which DIR. Friedman permitted
us to place on culture media in MS
presence. We requested DR.. Friedman
to furnish us with a large amount OF
this material for examination. but this
he has declined to do. We can state,
| however, that living acid fast bac-
terra are being injected by the intra-
muscular and intravenous method, al
though we are ignorant of what med1-
UNI they are suspended in or what
additional substance or substances
may be contained in the final mixture"
The report covers exhaustively the
history of the Friedman "cure" so far
as the facts have been available to the
public health service from the time OF
it's announcement in Berlin in No
vamber,~ 1912. and reveals the efforts
of the public health service to gather
material from DIR. friedman for its
investigation.
On the whole. DR. Friedmann's reluc-
lance to furnish certain details were
not satisfactory from scientif1c
standpoint but the report says, I'm
view of the great importance of the
matter to tuberculosis patients,
throughout the country and in the
hope that a valuable remedy might
have at last been found to not only
cure tuberculosis patients, but to pre-
vent the disease, the conditions i'm
posed by DR.. friedman were accepted.
An additional reason for taking adj
vanta ge of opportunities to make every
study possible was the assurance by
DIR. Friedman of it's harmlessness
when injected into human beings
FRIEDMAN RETICENT.
| One of the conditions imposed by
! DR. Friedman, according to the re-
! mort was that he would furnish de-
| tailed information of the methods of
preparing his remedy when the pub
| lie health board recognized favorable
results in patients. The board found
| that under all the conditions imposed
| il would have oportunity only to study
culture of the bacteria said to be
used in same way by DIR. Friedman
| in the preparation of his treatment. to
| test it's pathogenicity on the lower an
| finals and observe the effect of treat
ment by him of tuberculosis patients
with his finished remedy. These limi-
| tations, the Investigators found unsat-
! isfactory from the scientific standpoint.
The report is careful to say that
| Friedmanns reticence has in no way
been allowed to interfere with the
| Judgment of the board of the effects
which it has observed.
The government investigation is not
finished as the tests being conducted
| in the hygienic laboratory here and
the observations of the persons inocu-
lated will be continued.
Immediately after presentation of
the public health service report. reso-
,utien was unanimously adopted de-
claring it to be the judgment of the
association that me specific cure for
tuberculosis had yet been discovered
| to varrent the confidence of the pub
| lie or the medical profession" The
resolution recommended to all that
presents methods of treatment he con-
| tinued. DR.. Friedman was not mem