The Madison daily leader. [volume] (Madison, S.D.) 1890-current, 1913-04-26

Sone r1au been reipiesS TOR Years
Many Improved.
While the medical profession and
countless tuberculosis patients in this
country anXiously await definite
knowledge about the efficacy of Dr.
Franz Friedrich Friedmann's turtle
serum remedy, results that seem al
most magical have been reported by
persons the young German physician
treated in New York.
The final judgment of the so called
"cure" probably rests with the United
States government; hence all state
ments regarding results from the use
of the remedy at the present time
must be taken for what they are
worth
1t is known that in some cases the
serum failed to produce benefit Dr.
Friedmann's friends contend. howev-
er. that such cases were hopeless when
the remedy was administered.
Some of the verdicts favorable to
the remedy come from patients DR.
Friedman treated at the New York
: Hospital For Deformities and Joint
Diseases.
A New York reporter who had been
present when the remedy was admin
istered at the clinic called at the hos
pital recently and inquired about the
condition of the patients treated with
the serum.
Dr. Henry Frauenthal head OF tie
hospital, told the reporter he could not
make a statement regarding his OBJ
servation of the cases except through
the columns of a medical journal. in
accordance with professional etiquette.
"But inasmuch as you were here
before" added DR.. Frauenthal, 81 can
see no objection to your going through
the hospital and making such observa-
tions OF your own as you are able to
make from your memory of the pa
tients you saw under treatment"
Former Cripple Walks.
The first patient the reporter recog-
nized was Maurice Starr, a middle aged
man who had been crippled by tubercu-
losis of the hip joint. He was taken
to the hospital In a carriage just be-
fore the clinic and, being unable TO
walk, was carried up the stairs by his
own physician and an attendant. At
the clinic Starr said that he had not
been able to sleep with his leg straight
ened out for year and that he suffered
continuous pains.
Maurice Starr walked across the
room and shook hands with DIR. Frau
enthal and the reporter. When told
that the visitor had been present at
the clinic he laughed and said: Don't
look much like the same man now, do
I, have no more pain. / can keep
my leg Strengthened out ! can climb
stairs even"
Another Friedman patient was an
extraordinarily beautiful girl. She was
brought to the hospital, unable to walk
without assistance. Her right leg was
swollen until the knee was nine inches
in diameter. She could not use the leg.
She came walking toward the reporter
with perfect ease.
In the case of this girl a large alb
scess had formed on the affected knee
after Dr. Friedmann's cultures were
forced into the veins of neck and
thigh. This caused some alarm, but
when the pus was removed from the
abscess by lancing she began to mend
rapidly.
Many Report Improvement.
Another older woman who was de-
scribed at the clinic as one who had
not been able to move her leg for five
years was on her feet Supporting her
self by a doorjamb she swung the for
merly helpless leg through an arc of
two feet and bent her knee.
II have no more pain," she said. ut
was terrible before the doctor gave me
the medicine. l did not want to live
sometimes"
Her face which had been drawn with
lines of pain at the clinic was clear
and peaceful.
These were the more remarkable
cases. Not patient was found among
the thirty treated by DIR. Friedman
for bone tuberculosis at that clinic who
was an exception to the general rule
of better general appearance and re-
ports of the disappearance OF pain and
the limbering Of restricted joints.
The man Starr said that he had been
carried to Mount Sinai hospital when
1t was first announced that DIR. Fried
mann was to demonstrate there and
after an examination had been told by
the physicians that he ought not to
take the Friedman treatment as his
case was so far advanced that II could
not possibly do him good and might do
him harm. He persisted and was treat
ed at the other hospital.
Sophia Berger. patient at st Jo-
seph's hospital In Providence. B.. /,