The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-25
QUACK DOCTORS
REAP|NG HARVEST
They Are Processing to Have
Supply Of DR.. Fricdmann's
Vaccins
POOR PEOPLE RoBB E D
German Physician Indignant
When He Learns Of Methods
Being Used.
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Especial to The Times-Dispatchl
New York. March 24.-Informntlon
came to DR.. Friedrich Franz Friedman
today from several sections of the
United States that quack physicians are
claiming to have supply OF the
friedman vaccine" and are mulcting
tubercular victims Of thousands Of dol
lars by injecting the fake fluid.
So far as discovered, tho spurious
medical men are operating In Detroit,
Cleveland. Denver. Erie, Pa, and In
California. In Cleveland a poor wo-
man. widow, paid one Of the quacks
$500 to be given the "Friedmann treat
mcnt." Similar cases have been re-
ported where the rewards reaped by
the impostors have ranged from $40
to $1,000.
To- day DR.. friedman received Il
wire from DR.. Sherman Williams. pres
ident OF the State Board Of Health of
Colorado. stating that certain plysI.
clan in Needles. 4 town near the Ari-
IONA line. composed principally of
white plague victims. is claiming to
have quantity OF the Friedman vac
cine.
us this true and are you distribut
ing the vaccine?" wired DR.. Williams.
Dr. Friedmann's answer was that
only himself and DIR. Carl Ludwig
Schlefch, of Berlin, besides the Amer
lean government, have any OF his vac
cine. Only Dr. Friedman and Profess
sor Schleich are able to make proper
injections at present.
This is damnablew exclaimed DR..
Friedman, discussing the activities of
the quacks. 81 should not care but for
the fact that they are cheating the
poor. None is so low as the robber OF
the weak and the sick. If possible l
these rascals and punish them as they
deserve. In the meantime l should
like to warn the poor and ignorant
peoplc 70 whom they are appealing.
People who go to these quacks should
be careful OF the result Further in
roads are likely to be made upon their
health by such criminal treatment
Il have not given one drop Of my
vaccine TO one private physician, and If
|! had they would not be able to use 1t,
for only Professor Schleich and myself
know how to properly make the diff
cult second injection. However. before
go to Europe 1 shall make arrange
ments SO that second injections will be
made in the case of all patients 1 have
treated and intend TO treat before my
departure. The date OF my departure
has not been set yet"
DR.. Friedman made an emphatic de-
NAL to-day OF the declaration of local
physician that the German specialist
has resorted TO hypnotism in treating
tuberculosis patients with turtle vac
cine" DR.. Friedman said:
Il do not make any claim that the
patients suffering from tuberculosis of
the bone who have shown immediate
Improvement, in SO far as the move
ment of affected joints is concerned.
have been cured by my treatment I
make no claim whatever as to imme-
date cure. In no case. however, SO
far as / am concerned. has there been
any hypnotism. There is no doubt that
those patients who have been able to
move diseased joints have been sub
jects of autohypnosis or hypnotic an
esthesia. On my part. however. there
hasn't been even n suggestion to lead
20 this result"
DR.. Friedman spent to-day visiting
the local hospitals for the purpose of
selecting other patients upon whom
&c demonstrate his treatment. He Sc
lccted about twenty patients for future
clinics. Fifteen sufferers from various
forms of the white plague have been
selected for to- morrows clinic at the
hospital for deformities and joint dis
eases. which is to take place under the
observation of the United States gov
eminent physicians.