Elmore County Republican. [volume] (Mountain Home, Idaho) 1910-1915, 1913-05-10
CURE-A DISGRACE
Full PIECE OF CON-
MERCiALISM

Last November Friedrich Franz
friedman read paper before the
Berlin Medical Society announcing
that he had succeeded in producing
preparation of tubercle bacili BY
which he claimed to be able to pro-
duce curative effects in all but the
most advanced cases OF tuberculosis
and to immunize children against the
disease Immediately there appeared
in the newspapers of this country.
and to less extent in those abroad,
sensational accounts OF this new
treatment. 1t was lauded as a dis
covery that was to Danish tubercu-
losis from the world. This was the
beginning of a most remarkable and
disgraceful newspaper exploitation.
This has been kept up until the pre-
sent time. AS one looks back one
is forced to the conclusion, says the
Journal of the American Medical AS
ISOLATION, that, from the beginning, 1t
was premeditated, Well-arranged
scheme of free advertising. The press
agents of this obscure bacteriologiSt
certainly have done their work well.
Until it was announced that Fried
mann was coming to this country, the
medical profession was generous IN
ascribing to newspaper enterprise the
advertising he was receiving; but as
soon as it was announced that he was
coming for the million dollars offered
by wealthy philanthropist, many be-
came suspicious. HI was register
ed physician in Germany, with the
right to use his remedy there. The
German government fully secures 10
a discoverer by patent a monopoly
of the financial benefits to be deriV-
cd from his discovery. Germany GER
tainly has as many sufferers from tu-
berculosis. in proportion to its pop
ulation. as has the United States. IL
friedman has a remedy such as ne
claims. he could have secured In MS
own country financial returns which
would have made him rich. In spite
of this, he left his own land ana
came here; and his actions since he
has been in this country have been
such as to destroy any confidence
which thinking physicians may have
had in the man.
! Now it is announced that a deal
has been consummated through Whicl
he is to get a large sum OF money
Immediately, with great prospects
for the future. 1t is safe, therefore
tn conclude that he has realized the
ideal he had in mind when he land
cd on our golden shores. Greetee
with courteous open-mindedness a
first he seems to have been recely
ed with open arms by shreWd ane
not too scrupulous promoters Wh'
were eagerly watching for a chance
to reap a harvest in partnership WIFI
him. Unless there is some totally III
foreseen governmental action, or un
less some well-nigh impossible wav'
oe skepticism sweeps over the land
it looks as though the dollars TO %
wrenched from the wasted hands Q
tba tuberculous would make a har
vest which would exceed the reaplhs
Of all previous efforts to bunco tn
sick.
The American medical professor
has listened to the claims OF frleu
| mann with an open mind. IL ia
waited patiently for him to prove hl
claims and to show his real inten
tons. To wait longer is now vi
, necessary. The most pressing dut
+ now before physicians is to lay IN
: facts before the pupho
agency by which Friedman has 8
shrewdly secured the free advert'
ing from which he is preparing
reap his golden harvest. A unite
movement to warn the people on TIL
important question will meet win
I cordial response from this sam
t agency-the American press.
We can disregard the fact that I'd
: remedy is a secret one; we ca
y ignore the dishoAorable conduct
It Friedman as a physician; we ca
a even forget the possible danger th'
q lies in his treatment; we can let a
?. this pass. But one fact stands Of