The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-05-09
FRIEDMAN CURE
NOT ENDORSED
Continued from page II

DR.. Anderson called attention to
Dr, Friedmannss published address be-
| fore the Berlin Medical society in
which he stated that the intra-mus-
cular injection was the standard or
sovereign method of administering
! the treatment, but that it offered
some difficulties which were overcome
by the combined intra-yenous and
ira muscular method.
THE chief diffidllty," the surgeon
Explained. seems to have been in.
THAT in certain individuals the nor
mali local reaction, consisting of the
development of an infilatrate the size
of nut to that of an apple, which
gradually became resorbed) either
fails to develop any palable indura-
ticn whatever, or the infiltrate breaks
down in the form of discharging
abscess. According to his Cdr Fried
mann's) article, the course to pursue
seems to be, in the first instance, to
repeat Injections at long intervals I'M
til the development of 'hypersuseep-
Itibility' causes the formation of an
ideal filtrate: or in the second in
stance. to refrain entirely from furths
Ter treatment for prolonged period,
since further injections will only sub
ject the. patient to more assesses
without doing him any good
In our series OF patients, DR.. Fried
mann has almost exclusively made use
of the intra-muscular method alone in
pulmonary tuberculosis and very
considerable proportion of them have
either developed no considerable in
filtrate at all, or have suffered from
abscess formation. 1t is evident
therefore that very considerable
proportion of these patients may ex-
pect their treatment at the hands of
DR.. Friedman to extend over a pro-
lcnged period
Concerning the culture submitted
to us, we may state that series of
experiments is under way The bacil-
lus has been found to be an acid fast
organism having properties quite diff
ferent from those of any tubercule
hacilli with which we are acquainted.
il appears to be identical with an or
ganism cultivated from few loop-fulls
of the material used for injection, while
DR.. Friedman permitted us to place
no culture media In his presence. We
requested DR.. Friedman to furnish
US with a larger amount of this ma
terial for examination but this he has
declined to do. We can state, how
ever, that living acid fast bacteria
are being injected by the intra-mus-
cular and intra-venous method, al
though we are ignorant OF what med
ium they are suspended in. or what
additional substance, or substances
may be contained in the final mix
ture,'
The report reviewed the history Of
the friedman cure. DR.. Anderson de.
clared that arrangements for the
study of the cure" which had been
made, were unsatisfactory from d
scientific standpoint but said that be-
cause of the widespread publicity
which the treatment was receiving
the service decided to undertake the
examination anyhow.
The board in fact DR.. Anderson
explained, found that under the
conditions prescribed by DR.. Fried
mann, it would have opportunity only
to study culture of the bacteria
i,, hx, Dr
Friedman in the preparation of his
treatment, to test its pathogenicity on
the lower animals and to observe the
effect of treatment by him of tubercu-
losis patients with his finished rem
edy 1t will be recognized, Of course.
that such an arrangement was not
satisfactory from scientific stand,
but in view of the great Importance
of the matter to tuberculosis patients
throughout the country and in the
hope that valuable remedy might
have at least been found, to not only
cure tuberculosis patients but to pre-
vent the disease, the conditions i'm
posed by Dr.. Friedman were accept
ed"
OF the ninety-four patients treated
by DR.. friedman under the supervi-
sion OF the health service surgeons,
DIR. Anderson said that only FIVE had
received the second injection. This,
he said, was because of the frequent
absences OF DR.. friedman and his
apparent lack of interest in the
demonstration.