The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-31
Physicians Now Know
How He Manufac-
lures His Serum.
ONLY ONE SECRET 4
is LEFT TO SOLVE
He Evades Telling Whether His
Bacilli Originate in Turtle or
in Human Body-His State
ment Is Made When He
Applies for Patent
in Berlin.
Especial to The rimes- Dispatch. ]


New York, March sO.-The first
official statement Of the proccsses used
by DR.. Friedrich Franz Friedmann in
tho preparation OF his tuberculosis
cure" the cf1cacy OF which he is now
seeking 10 den,onstrate to American
physicians and tho lay public, has been
obtained.
It is a translation OF Dr FriednaIn'a
own explanation OF the method OF man
ufacture Of his serum now on file in
the government patent Office at Berlin.
. similar statement is now a part of
the secret files or the United States
Patent Office at Washington.
Medical men who have closely fol
lowed the demonstrations and decla-
rations of DR. Friedmann said tonight
that the publication Of this document
now leaves but one feature Of import
ancc In the friedman discovery un-
solved
Evndes Frank Statement.
In this explanation OF his process
Dr Friedman carefully cvades a
frank statement or whether his bacilli
originated In the turtle az has been
generally believed or in the human
body.
Tho explanation which now remains
for DR.. Friedman TO make is whether
lie originally found the nonvirulent tu-
bercular bacilli in the turtle. or cul-
tvated human bacilli. By the processes
he describes, To point where II was
nonvirulcnt ana acclimated 30 the cold
blood Of the turtle
DR.. friedman describes four meth
ods by which bacilli may be treated to
attain the results he claims to have
attained. Three of these methods. ply
sicians declare. have beer used by
bactertolosi lists Tor from ten TO twenty
yearH.
The German savant, however. claims
Improvement in these methods One
Improvement is in the method of kill
ing the bacilli. The old way was to
kill them by means OF rotary ma
chino equipped with glass balls DIR
Friedmann uses n hammer. crushing
the peculiar gelatinous substance that
surrounds tho bacilli. II is said that
the old system produced heat. which
kept alive the virulence Of the baciIli
and this fault is overcome by DR.
Friedmanns hammerinG process
mixture of dead and alive non
virulent hRcilli is also described BY
Or. Friedman. Another method is to
breed together the virulent and non
virulent baciili. and DIR. Friedman has
found that the nonvirulcnt bacill
finally counteract and render noncrrec-
tive tho virulent ones.
TO Jnn,unizc Babies.
DR.. Fricdniann took UP with assist
ants yesterday the proposition Of inn
mnnizinS babies Speaking OF the plan
tonight, lie said that eighteen months
ago he Injected his serum into about
$50 newly born children, most Of them
of tnbercular parents lie said that
he had carefully watched the results
and evidently the vaccination" had
been effective and done much good. as
none of the children had developed
symptoms of tuberculosis
He expressed the View that 1t would
be better first to treat babies and
having protected them from the pos
sibility OF tuberculosis, turn to the
treatment of adult sufferers.
TN this way" said DR. Friedmenn
tuberculosis could be stamped out in
a generation"
Record of Application.
The record of tho Friedman appli-
cation for a patent is as follows:
Mark and number Of document, r
3c724.
Reported November "a. 1s1s.
Time limit for objections, January
Ia. 1918.
Name of patentec. DR.. Friedrich
Franz friedman. No. Heinke Street,
Berlin.
Title: Process for making curative
and protective serums against tuber-
culosls.
Claims Of the petitioner:
1. Process for the manufacture of
curative and protective serum against
tuberculosis, characterized by the fact
that for man and mammals tubercular
bacilli, nonvirulent or made nonviru-
lent. or otehr acid-proof bacillf of like
quality, or mixtures OF different non
virulent baoilli are transplanted at
short intervals OF FROM five to ten days
on naehrboeden (material used as the
foundation for the culture), for a long
time, that is to say, for several years;
whereupon. in the usual manner, either
the bacilli and the naehrboeden arc
operated as effective curative products
or the bacilli are worked over with the
naehrboeden or any emulsion or other
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