Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-08
OOVI ~ u IOTIO
U. S. Examiners of friedman
Vaccine Are Named.
WILL GO TO NEW YORK
Health Service Attaches Are to
Work With German Doctor.
FAIR TRIAL is PROMISED
If Treatment Is Found Valuable
Patients in New Mexico Then
Will Be Aided.

Will Be Aided.
Surgeon General Blue of the public
| health service today designated Director
John F. Anderson of the hygiene labora-
| tory and Surgeon Arthur NJ. Stimson
board to conduct an investigation Of DIR.
Friedmann's tuberculosis vaccine. The
| two public health officers leave for New
York tonight to meet the German ply
stefan tomorrow. They will work with
| him and bring cultures to the hygienic
| laboratory for tests and use upon
| monkeys.
1.-The government intends to give the
friedman vaccine a thoroughly fair
| test" said Surgeon General Blue today.
| land if the first tests and the applica-
| ton to monkeys demonstrate it is Of
some value it will be tested further
upon patients at the public health sana-
| forum at Fort Stanton. N. M.
eff it proves of value there 1t later will
| be available at all marine hospitals OF
| the service. Sufferers should not raise
| their hopes too high until we have thor
oughly investigated the vaccine
| Attitude Of the United States.
eminent with regard to the Friedman
cure is explained in a letter sent to DR..
Friedman in New York city by former
Secretary Macveagh last Monday. The
letter was made public by the United
States public health service today, and
is as follows:
LAS you are already aware. the atten-
ton of this government has been called
| to your announcement of a preparation
for the cure of tuberculosis. Through OF
| fetal channels, the United States public
health service has been Kept INFORMED
of events In connection Herewith, and a
copy of your letter Of January II. 1913.
| addressed to the American consul general
| at Berlin. was received by the surgeon
general February B.
| Ion account of the great Importance
of your announcement, and in view OF
your invitation, it was determined to
send an officer of the hyg1enfc laboratory
| to Berlin to take advantage OF your OF
fer to make such Investigations as would
| enable him to make a comprehensive and
| impartial report. In the meantime. II
was learned that you expected to come
| to New York, and arrangements We're
accordingly made to have surgeon M. n. n,
Kronprizessin Cecilie on arrival Tor the
purpose of informing you that the pup
| lie health service is prepared to accept
your invitation to make an investigation.
i
such time and place as might be con-
yenient to arrange the necessary details.
instruction Necessary.
ION receipt of telegraphic report from
DIR. Foster. Surgeon John F. Anderson,
director of the hygienic laboratory, was
sent to New York to confer with you. On
| his return Dr. Anderson reported that you
would furnish him culture of your or
ganism in few days, but that you stated
that it would be of no use to him or 10
any one else for a proper study unless the
person receiving it had been instructed by
YOU during a period of from six to eight
weeks as to its proper manner OF prepa-
ration and use. ,
.He further reported that you would
permit an investigation. but tnat the
person who undertook to do SO would
have to have the necessary training
under you as above mentioned.
l .'On account of the Importance 10
humanity of an announcement sucn as
YOURS which gives promise that q
means has been discovered to comDat
tuberculosis. and because OF the great
| nublic interest that has been aroused
by dispatches in the press. | desire 10
investigation of your preparation. ana
will have the studies conducted unoer
the auspices OF the United states
| public health service. Under the act
of Congress approved july l. .h so s,,n anr.'
| vision Of the propagation and sale OF
virnses. serums and toxins in inter-
state traffic.
Text of the Statute.
This act reads in part as follows:
mo person shall sell, barter, or ex-
change or offer for sale, barter, or ex-
change in the District of Columbia, or
send, carry. or bring for sale. barter. or
exchange from any state, territory, or
the District of Columbia into any state.
territory, or the District of Column
hia or from any foreign country
into the United States. any virus
therapeutic serum, toxin, antltoxin,
or analogous product applicable 70 the
prevention and cure Of diseases OF man.
unless TAI such virus, serum, toxin, an
titoxin, or product has been propagated
and prepared at an establishment holding
an unsupported and unrevOked license,
issued by the Secretary of the Treasury
| as hereinafter authorized.
"The provisions Of the above mentioned
| law make it incumbent on the department
to make an effort to inquire into bioiogic
products propagated for the cure of dis
| eases of man.
Detail Of Officers.
Il have to inform you, therefore. that
the Treasury Department, through the
| public health service. will enter into any
| reasonable arrangement for an investiga-
| ton of your preparation. that. after the
| necessary arrangements have been made
| cultures of your organism will be accept
| ed for purposes of study. and one or more
| officers will be designated to associate
| themselves with you for the purpose OF
| learning the method Of preparation and
| use of your remedy and Its effects on
/ cases of tuberculosis. After necessary
| studies have been conducted to determine
the harmlessness of inOculating human
| beings with your culture. arrangements
/ can be made for admittance to hospital
| of such cases OF tuberculosis as apply
/ and may be selected; the treatment to be
| administered by you, under the observa-
/ ton of the officers to be selected ana such
| other experts as may be associated with
l them.
| DR.. friedman fGratified.
NEW YORK, March S.-The Peoples
Hospital, a small institution on the East
Side. where DR.. Friedrich Friedman OF
Berlin conducted his first treatment of
patients in this country with his tuber-
culosis serum Thursday, has voted to
| give the young bacteriologist the free
| dom of the hospital for life.
When DR. Friedman heard OF the de-