Burlington weekly free press. [volume] (Burlington, Vt.) 1866-1928, 1913-03-27
TEN PATIENTS OF
FRIEDMAN GAIN
Bad Symptoms Disappeared the
Second Day-Weight of All
but One Increased.

New York. March 23-What was called
the first real test Of DR.. Friedrich Fried
mann's ant-tuDerculosis vaccine came
yesterday at Bellevue hospital. The test
was made under dramatic circumstances.
The German expert was in the midst
of clinic in the operating amphitheatre
of the hospital in the presence of 200 ply
scans and nurses, when the door opened
and in walked in single file 10 consump-
tivcs who had been injected with the
friedman vaccine last Mondav.
Questioned by DR.. John Winter Bran
nan, head of Bellevue, the 10 patients,
amid GREATNESS silence on the part of the
audience, announced, with only one ex-
ception, that they already had expert
enced marked Improvement
DR.. Brannan subjected the 10 persons
to rigid questioning and they gave cate
gorical replies.
Has your weight changed?' was the
first question.
Yes. it has increased" responded nine
of the 10 According to their statements
their weight had increased from 81 Of
. pound to II pounds per individual
The one patient who reported no gain
in weight was what the doctor called
last Monday a bad case" on account
of a wasting disease of the liver COM
plicateG with tuberculosis
"Havc your night swcats stopped"
was the second question.
To that every one of the 10 patients
answered YES" No one of them, they
said. had experienced any sweats in the
last three days
The third question was as to the spit
ting of blood and hemorrhages. The
!" persons declared that none of them
| had eXpectorated blood or experienced
hcmorrhagc since the second day after
, the injection of the vaccine.
ANY pain in the lungs" was DR.
| Brannan's next question.
| TO this they all responded mo"
What is your general condition
now?" asked DIR. Brannan in conclu
| sion.
Without exception they said they
felt much better, very much better
they said as they looked around the
room at the 300 doctors ana nurses
some of whom looked at them with
apparent mcredulity and amazement
All of the 10 had the disease in q
mild type, and that fact was so stated
last Monday, when the vaccine was
injected
Twenty-thrce sufferers were treateo
yesterday. Eighteen have pulmonary
tuberculosis and the others affection
of the bones. one was a tWo-ycar
old child with an arm so swollen thai
Dr. Friedman could not locate veir
he sought. Holding the baby by tn
ankles. head downward the physician
injected his vaccine in the jugular ven
and again fundamentally on the legs
Dr. j. 5. Atkinson, physician o
Marinette Wis, who walked miles
through the snow to reach railroad
station on his way East, was refused
admittance as patient at the cllnl'
} yesterday
I DR.. friedman was anxious to treat NJ
e fellow physician, but the tuoerculosi
committee of the hospital ruled agalns
IT on the ground that Dr. Atkinson Is no
! a resident Of this State. He is preparin
= to return home unless the Bellevue an
t thoritics overrule the tuberculosis com
l mittc".
Before entering the clinic DR.. frleo
Z mann authorized an announcement ina
5 two weeks hence he will return TO Gel
= many for a brief period to complete ur
= finished laboratory tests. He will retur
to the United States, hopeful that by tina
s time the government health authorize
Y will nave recognized his vaccine as
, cure.