The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-23
SEVERE GOVERNMENT
TEST FOR FRIEDMAN
Treats 23 Sufferers From All
Kinds Of Tuberculosis
Mt Bellevue.
MAY GO TO BERLIN SOON
Doctor Not Sure of Plans, hut
Says He VIII Come
Back.
WAY GO TO BERLIN SOON

The second and perhaps the last
Bellevue clinic for the testing Of DR..
Friedmann's tuberculosis culture under
the eye Of the Government doctors was
held at the hospital yesterday afternoon.
Or. friedman gave his injection OF the
turtle bacilli to twenty-three patients.
With the preliminary work necessary
the clinic took most Of Or. Friedmanns 8
time and when he reached his hotel he
was tired out.
The diversity Of the cases treated
yesterday was one of the features of
the clinic. There were examples of
about every variety OF tuberculosis.
! from the consumptive to the sufferer
from the terrible lupus, or skin affec-
tion. This wide scope was arranged
for between DR.. friedman and the
Government doctors here to watch the
tests
The treatments at Bellevue have now
brought the tota. cases which are called
Government :ests'' up to sixty. This
is not IN la'.~ n number as was sup
posed DR.. Rupert Blue Of Washington
would deem necessary for an exhaustive
test. But owing to the character of
the patients which have been brought
before DR.. Friedman II IL thought
that sufficient working material for ac-
cumulation Of fnal data on the remedy
has been got together. 1t is generally
believed that the Federal doctors will
not ask Dr. Friedman to treat other
patients for them.
This fact. combined with the knowl-
edge that DR.. Friedman is anxious to
return to his native land has led to the
rumors that the doctor was about to go
back to Berlin. This he denied most
emphatically last night, saying that his
plans were entirely in the air and that
his return depended upon many circum-
stances here and at home which were
as Yet uncertain. The indications were.
however, that he would start for Ger
many in several weeks and would come
back very shortly.
But before Or. Frieamann does go
home he is anxious to hold at least
one large clinic At the Hospital for
Dcformit.es and Joint Diseases. a clinic
larger than any he has yet held here
IL" wants this to he under the Gov
ernment supervision, as have those at
Mount Sinai and Bellevue hospitals
Whether Drs. Anderson and Stimson
W lil' luflI' ft'dUn service VIII take
M this added work or rest ON the
tests which have already been started
remains to l." seen
Nevertheless these Federal doctors
hav" been requested by Or Frodmann
"a ask Surgecn-General Blue for per
iuissiOn 10 supervise the new dNmonstra-
tfbn Of tho turtle rultur" AT the Hos
pital for Deforritie~ Dr friedman
Also has mad" the request that the two
dozen cases already treated at that hos
pital be entered in the lists of Govern.
inent patients.
Dr. friedman Is much pleased with
his recent reception al the Deformities
Hospital and the class of tubercular
troubles he finds there. For that rca-
SON h" WAS much disappointed to learn
Yesterday that the plan for the adrnis-
sion tp Mount Sinai Hospital for Gov
ernment charge uf ten joint cases
treated by him AT the Dcformiti-S had
to be abandoned owing 10 the outbreak
of scarlet fever in the ward of tho Mount
Sinai, where these cases were To have
been lodged.
br. Fricdrnann's persistent dcsir" to
pleas" the Government surgeons, aS
well as tn Cooperat" with them, was
shown again yesterday when II was