Evening times-Republican. [volume] (Marshalltown, Iowa) 1890-1923, 1913-03-06
German Doctor Asserts II Cures
Consumption.
ToTEACH OTHER PHYSICIANS
Or. 2. e. friedman. Arrives In New
York and Opens Bureau to Spread
His Lymph All over- .country-Rs.
esivss Thousands ef Rsqussts-in.
jsets' Bacillus From Turtle.

a cure for tuberculosis has precipitated
q controversy in both hemispheres be
cause of the scarcity of scientific in
formation accompanying the announce
ment, arrived in New York recently
He was met by his brother, DIR. A. G.
III. Friedman of Colorado Springs
Colo, and Charles e. Finlay, president
Of the Aetna National bank, New York
city, who offered 100000 for the
cure of test cases. He had with him
publicity agent named Charles &c
Vidal Hundt, who was recognized as q
former Chicago newspaper man and is
said to be connected with the Berlin
bureau Of New York newspaper.
DR.. friedman, asserted Mr.. Hundt
had said nothing more than that he
offered his reatment-he did not want
the word remedy" used-to the United
States government and that he wished
1t distributed as rapidly as possible in
this country as well as in other coun-
tries.
when I leave this country" DR..
Friedman said, II want to leave it SO
that no one can say he did not have
an opportunity to try the Friedman
treatment because his financial means
did not permit him to do so.
For Internal and External Cases.
Il intend to treat tuberculosis In
ternally as consumption and also the
externe4 forms, particularly as it
shows itself in the knee joints Of chill
dren."
The foregoing was interpreted by
DR.. Friedmann's brother. Mr.. Hun.}t
interrupted at this point to say:
Zone of DR.. Friedmann's ambitions
is to show the really remarkable re-
suits obtained in tuberculosis of the
knee. Nothing would be more pleas
ing to him than to find as many as
possible Of these as are affected"
Mr.. Finlay said offers had been made
of several places in which patients
might be treated, but nothing definite
in this direction was announced be-
yond the fact that DR.. friedman
would be ready to begin work in four
or five days and that great many
patients were expected.
what does your treatment consist
OF" Or. friedman was asked.
lnjscts Bacillus From q Turtle.
sit is the Injection" his brother re-
piled, 'into the blood dntravenous) Or
into the muscular tissue or subcuta-
neOusly of an avirulent (nonvirulenD
atoxic (nonpoisonous) tuberculosis ba-
cillus from the turtle.
Before he injected any Of this into
his first patient he injected it into
himself three times at different inter-
walls. No reaction beyond little in
filtration followed, and there was no
fever to speak Of"
DIR. Friedman was asked how long
ago he first employed the treatment.
He said he thought it was four or five
years ago. Reports from Berlin indi-
cate that he announced in 1904 that
he had isolated the bacillus tuberculo-
sis and that it was of value In the
treatment Of the disease.
According to DR.. Friedman, he has
conferred immunity from tuberculosis
upon $50 newborn children by his treat
ment. When asked how he knew he
had conferred immunity from the dis
ease he replied that he had observed
them for eighteen months following
the administration of the treatment
and that no Ill effect had resulted. He
made no reference to the possible sub
sequent development of tuberculosis.
Thousands Of Requests Come.
Thousands Of kilograms and letters
have come to the physician begging
him to administer the cure to patients
all over the country. He has announc-
ed that sanitarium will be estab-
lished in New York and others. prob