Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-10
.DR. .FR|EDMANN IS
SC0FFS
HUTCHINSON
|criticises Selection of Cases
and Calls Technique of In
ieCting Serum BungIing.
o., nR WOODS HUTCHINSON.

AZ
H,4iedmann cure would be made at the
.,1s.s hospital and a limited number
Fl ,nbvs.rians be permitted to be pres
emit my hrst feeling was one of relief
..+isfaction that at last the red
e4s to be cut, and our visitor
Given an opportunity to show exactly
ina. was in his much heralded cure
-. N damonstrate it's powers by ac-
|tual experiment
brief straightforward and impair
.fsl narrative of the way in which he
n robraced the opportunity will perhaps
,oable the public to judge how he rose
f, and how far he fulfilled the high
4,pectations aroused by his coming.
obviously, no final conclusion or
,,dgment of anv kind can be pro-
81 ro,rced as this was only the first step
IN test which 1t will take probably
Il months to complete in the form of def
II ri+e results, either positive or negative.
Selects From Twenty-Five.
81 In marked contrast to the crowds
cbir1 had besieged the Waldorf when
u. Friedman first reached the hos
#n-9l about II o'clock there were only
three or four patients waiting. But
q "a he proceeded to examine them and
&r.sd their histories, others came pour
n Inc into the waiting room by twos and
t1rees brought in by their physicians,
7until some twenty or twenty-five were
e In attendance
Dr.. friedman spent about an hour
s tn going over these patients, and at the
IA end of this time dismissed as unsuited
for the trial of his remedy all but
#three.
This was a good deal of a disap-
pointment 10 the physicians who had
HfoDed to see the remedy tested upon as
& wide a scale as possible and upon
#cases i'm all stages of the disease. This
n #dissppointment was the keener be-
cause the large majority of the cases
#reiected were either early or middle
NNage cases. IN which the disease was
seadily progressing, or patients in
s advanced stages of the disease, whose
n only hope of recovery would certainly
81 be past unless something could be done
for them within a few weeks or months.
None Of them, however, was in any
y sense in a desperate or immediate crit
ical condition. and all but one of them
i e,fr-
n for hopeful open air or santarium
81 treatment
Two Men and Girl.
The cases accepted by DR.. Fried
E mann for treatment were two men Of
s about 35 or 40 years of age, with pull
n #monary tuberculosis, and a young
#voman with bone tuberculosis of the
#Rnee joint One of the male patients
a had had the disease for five years and
n lost six pounds in weight. The other
a had had it for four years and lost five
d pounds, Both of them had good color
N and appetite, no noticeable cough-in
81 fact, were typical ca ses of the long
q we'd chronic, so-called fibrous type of
n the disease, which runs anywhere from
n five 10 fifteen years and then some
ines heals up or comes to standstill.
As both of them, under reasonable
NJ care might be expected to live at least
Il three to five years and make several
temporary gains in the meantime. One
OF them had gained five pounds under
Fl Inc openair treatment only a few
Fl months before.
" course, no reasonable man would
nave expected DIR. Friedman to cure
81 any large per cent of the far-gOne or
II rapidly advancing early cases Yet, in
View of the high claims made for his
remedy and the difficulty he has had in
eeuing an adequate field for trial, it is
certainly matter for regret that he
#seemed disinclned to take sporting
Rclance."
Syringes Work Badly.
HI After the disappointment of the re-
!ected ones had been somewhat soothed,
ne selected cases were taken upstairs
n ~ lhe operating room. and DR.. Fried
'Nanh produced two small brown glass
ae-mouthed bottles. containing his
n -no9s vaccine, and two hypodermic
IN "hses The syringes were of the
pc generally uhed in this country ten
nlieen years ago, but which have
'N been generally abandoned on ac-
''hl or the difficulty in keeping them
NSere
ne ooc'or had great difficulty in
lhS 1e syringes to work properly,
last ao succeeded In getting one Of
@lnges to work passably. and then
uneed that he was about to make
UiraNenous injection-that is. to
u,l ihe needle into superficial vein
'o inject the remedy directly into the
oo1, The girl, with bone tuberculosis.
80 was his first patient, was so fat
"- me superficial veins were not
II adIy visible
ANer changing from one arm to an
wing bandages around the arm
"'""' the veins swell, and two un-
sSiul insertions of the needle. he
E put the case aside and said he
Ill., go on to one of the other cases
"'" consumed about 45 minutes i'm
- ms defective syringe and failing
- Vein and effect an injection i'm
first case. ''''' ~