New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-06-07
TURTLE GERM USELESS,
DR.. MANNHE|MER FINDS
No Improvement in Any Case
and One Shows Evidence OF
Its Harm, He Reports.
"DISGUSTED" WITH "CURE"
Opinion Based on Observation
of First 18 Gases Inoculated
in This Country, Is OF
Them in His Office.

THE Medical Record" publishes to-day
the first clinical report OF cases treated
by DR.. Friedman on March s and In
the office OF DR.. George Mannheimer. NO.
Al West 4lst street. With the exception
OF three patients treated at the People
Hospital. they were the first 10 receive
Injections OF the turtle germs In this
country.
A large proportion OF them were con-
sumptives who had sought the assistance
Of Charles f. Finlay. the banker. whose
name was associated with the coming OF
Or. Friedman.
Dr. Manufacturers report was read be-
fore the Metropolitan Medical Society at
the New York Academy OF Medicine on
May Il. lie concludes from observation
OF eighteen patients under his care that
there were no Indications OF curative
principle. and in at least one case there
were indications OF the principle OF harm
fulness. which was the base OF the re-
cent action OF the Board Of Health pro-
hibting the use OF the Friedman turtle
vaccine
Or. Mannheimer summarizes the eigh-
teen cases as follows:
I'm not a single one OF these cases was
there definite improvement TO date at
tributable to the vaccine. In some the
disease progressed unchecked. In no in
stance did the temperature return TO nor
NAL Five OF the eighteen developed abb
cesses, four OF them small and one Of them
large. cannot determine whether the
~ fC-
ease where It occurred"
a summary Of the report on each OF the
patients follows
Case l. Woman. forty; I'll fourteen
years No change
2 Man, thirty-four; Ill twelve years. No
change
g. Woman. thirty-seven. No improve.
ment. but Troublesome sinuses.
4. Girl. twenty pulmonary tubercu-
oss for twelve years. Patient is worse.
would not advise a second injection BY
5. Man. forty, i'll four years; result
negative.
6. Man. thirty-eight. had so much con-
fldence In cure that he married, getting
worse.
!. Man. twenty-eight, lost seven pounds.
but felt fairly well.
g. Man. thirty. ten days after treatment
said he was greatly improved. but disease
advanced and SUll spreading.
.. Man, twenty-siX. four weeks after
injection old abscess opened.
10 Man. twenty-eight, sick four and a
half years: now in hospital.
The result in these last four cases Is so
far unfavorable.
II. Physician, forty-six: I'll two years:
coughs more and does not look as well.
AS a result of this case particularly II
am Disguised with Friedmanns meth
DDS"
l2. Lawyer. twenty-seven; in bed since
end OF March with broncho-pneumonia
fever hemorrhages and appearance OF
bacilli. Disease not checked.
10. Collector. thirty: no Improvement.
"a. Hospital orderly, twenty-six: tuber-
culoss OF kidney and bladder; no improve
ment.
Is. Boy. four and a half years old; a
case OF tuberculosis lymphnodes. which
Friedman did not consider suitable for
his vaccine.
10. Boy. nine. tuberculosis OF hip for
three years. result. no change.
II. Butcher, twenty-seven; neither i'm
provement in lungs nor knee.
IL Boy. sixteen. typical case OF tuhercu-
losis OF ankle: injection followed by
sharp general reaction, followed by less
pain and freer motion. but soon old con-
dition returned; second injection, no i'm
provement.