Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-10
.DR. FR|EDMANN IS
AFROST, SCOTS
HUTCHINSON
Criticises Selection of Cases
and Calls Technique of In
ieCting Serum Bungling.
~ DR.. WOODS HUTCHINSON.

q ,,r;.,1mann cure would be made at the
81 ,..rIe.s hospital and limited number
+ nbysiGians be permitted to be pres
mfr nv first feeling was one of relief
md satisfaction that at last the REQ
a,o was to be cut and our visitor
III o4,eo an opportunity to show exactly
,bs. was in his much heralded cure
and to demonstrate it's powers by ac-
81 ,ual experiment.
brief. aightforward and impair
n .,a1 narrative of the way in which he
embraced the opportunity will perhaps
enable the public to judge how he rose
81, +, and how far he fulfilled the high
" .zoactations aroused by his coming,
obviously. no final conclusion or
Judgment of any kind can be pro-
Il rourced. as this was only the first step
in test which it will take probably
months to complete. in the form of def
mite results, either positive or negative
Selects From Twenty five.
m marked contrast to the crowds
q which had besieged the Waldorf, when
81 IN. friedman first reached the hos
81 nttal about II o'clock there were only
81 three or four patients waiting. But
s. - he proceeded to examine them and
81 read their histories, others came pour
ing into the waiting room by twos and
81 brees, brought in by their physicians
81 until some twenty or twenty five were
S. in attendance.
Dr. friedman spent about an hour
in going over these patients, and at the
81 end of this time dismissed as unsuited
81 for the trial of his remedy all but
three.
This was Il good deal of a disap-
81 pointment to the physicians who had
hoped to see the remedy tested upon as
81 wide a scale as possible and upon
cases in all stages of the disease. This
l.sappointment was the keener be-
,ause the large majority of the cases
M rejected were either early or middle
81 stage cases. n which the disease was
b steadily progressing, or patients in
"a advanced stages of the disease. whose
III only hope of recovery would certainly
81 be past unless something could be done
n for them within few weeks or months.
None Of them, however, was in any
81 s.nse in q desperate or immediate crit
nj ical condition, and all but one of them
Il would have been regarded as fair cases
81 for hopeful open-air or sanitarium
81 treatment.
Two Men and a Girl.
The cases accepted by Dr. Fried
b mann for treatment were two men of
about 80 or 40 years of age, with pull
81 monary tuberculosis, and a young
III woman with bone tuberculosis of the
FL knee joint. One of the male patients
81 had had the disease for five years and
lost six pounds in weight. The other
81 had had it for four years and lost five
81 pounds Both of them had good color
Ri and appetite, no noticeable cough-in
Fl fact We're typical cases of the long
FL lived chronic. so-caned tibrous type OF
III the disease. which runs anywhere from
III i've to fifteen years and then some
FL lines heals up or comes to a standstill
As both of them, under reasonable
81 care. might be expected to live a leas
81 aree to five years and make severa
III temporary gains in the meantime. one
ri of them had gained five pounds undel
Fl the open-air treatment only few
Fl months before,
III OF course, no rea sonable man WoulC
Ri nave expected DR.. friedman to cure
II any large per cent of the far gone oil
Fl apidIy advancing early cases. Yet, ir
81 view of the high claims made for his
ri remedy and the difficulty he has had in
II getting an adequate field for trial, it is
Fl certainly a matter for regret that he
81 seemed disinCined to take sporting
I'd chance"
III Syringes Work Badly.
After the disappointment of the re-
81 .eyJed ones had been somewhat soothed
81 the selected cases were taken upstairs
II TO the operating room, and DR.. Fried
III mann produced two small brown glass
I'll vide mouthed bottles, containing his
famous vaccine and two hypodermiC
Syringes. The syringes were of the
III Fpe generally uhed in this country ter
81 fifteen years ago nut which have
81 ho" been generally abandoned on ac-
cunt Of the difficulty in keeping them
sterile
III The doctor had great difficulty in
III getting the syrnges to work properly
81 ast he succeeded in getting one OF
Fl sNr.nges to work passa bly,. and ther
"hounged that he was about TO make
inravenous injection--that is. t.
"dSt the needle into superficial weir
ana inject the remedy directly into the
1000. The girl with bone tuberculosis
VINO was his first patient was so fat
nat the superficial veins were not
readily visible.
AFTER changing from one arm to an.
'.aer, tying bandages around the arm
III make the veins swell, and two un.
@'eeesstul insertions Of the needle ht
""a.y put the case aside and said ht
.'1id 60 on to one of the other cases
ne mad consumed about As minutes il
III ing his defective syringe and faiIins
I'll ma a vein and effect an injection il
Tie first case.
Inc treatment of the other two case.