New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-09
Patients Refuse TO Talk.

Nome of the patients who lett the
51st street house would make any coin-
ment on what happened inside. one
tau chan said Excuse me, i might
prejudice myself with DR.. frieoniahh
II said q word"
DIR. BENJAMIN, the Berlin discoverer
assistant, with the help OF DE Niua'-
Hundt, talked little OF the DAY
happeninrs. Neither DR.. Arthur Fred
mann, the brother. nor DR.. frieurlch
Franz put In appearance. Or. benJa-
min said seventeen cases IN all hau
been treated at DR.. Manufacturers Oh
five. One case of tuberculosis Is OF the
hip. two of the knee, two Of the Kidney
and bladder, one of glands of the neck
and eleven of pulmonary phthisis'
Names of the patients and physicians
who submitted them were witnheio.
Dr BENJAMIN was In a jubilant mooo'
The knee case" he said, was very
interesting one. in view OF the TACT
chat the physician who had the case IN
charge is well known Specialist on
knee tuberculosis, and he had decided
that an immediate operation was neces-
sarv on the knee joint of the patent
who was young man.
The doctors trip from the Ansonia 10
DR.. Mannheimer's was not his ohly
mysterious move of the day. He stole
off in a taxicab in the morning ana ga"
Dr. Brannan, of Bellevue Hospital.
II Is expected that the Friedman
headquarters will be the scene TO-DAY
of prelimnaries TO test by the United
States government DR.. John +. An
derson. of the HYGIENE LaboratorE'
and Surgeon Arthur NJ. Stimson had
left Washington last night and will
meet DIR. Friedman here to-day.
They will work with him and take
cultures to the hygienic laboratory for
tests and use upon monkeys
Secretary de Vidal-Hundt was not
prepared 10 make a definite statement
in regard to the government tests, but
said they would probably begin to-day.
To Report on Demonstration.
Or. Julius Broder. who voiced with
considerable impetuosity his disap-
prevail Of DR.. F'riedmann's methods
after witnessing the first administra-
ton Of the culture in the Peoples Hos
pital. said yesterday that the report of
the committee appointed by the medi-
cal board of the hospital to view the
operation would be made to the County
Medical Society on Monday or Tues
dsy. The report would contain 10
opinions either prejudicial or favorable
TO the cure" he said, but would simply
state facts.
The physicians present at the ad-
ministration. DR.. Broder said, had re-
covered several drops Of the culture
after the operation, which they exam
ined under the microscope. SO far as
he had been able TO determine, there
was nothing in the preparation except
the turtle bacili. He doubted ex-
tremely whether the animal culture
would have any effect on human be-
ings.
Since the publication of his criticism
Of DR.. Friedman. letters and messages
have poured in TO DR.. Broder, he said,
agreeing with his viewpoint and Offer
ing 10 treat the cases which the Ger
man specials; refused TO accept. DR..
Louis Bradford Couch, of Nyack, who
said he had treated number Of severe
cases successfully, wrote:
How silly of any one to think that
patient with a shrunken atrophic skin.
with $4,000 pores closed against ex-
halation of the gases of combustion.
with lungs partly gone. can recover
with an injection Of turtle bacilll