Daily Kennebec journal. [microfilm reel] (Augusta, Me.) 1870-1975, 1913-04-10
Treated by Or. friedman
For tuberculosis.
Sticks to Sanitorium al Provi-
dene for Five Hours.
viii Treat Private Patients, Today,
Receiving Fees for Services.

! providence. Il, l., April 9.-Before a
representative gathering of the medt-'
cal PROFESSION OF the state, DR.. Fried
/ rich franz friedman, today, injected
the vaccine which he claims is a cure
Tor tuberculosis into So of the 124 pa
TENTS at the Wallum Lake SAM
forum, state institution at Pascoag
While none. of the physicians who
Witnessed the clinic, would make any
statement as TO their opinions of the
curative powers. of the treatment.
| several of them said that they wer,
favorabls impressed with the German
physician. :. ~
For five hours, from the time he ar
| rived until he left, nj 6 o'clock, Dr.
F'riedmann stood in one of the rooms
| at the institution interviewing and
treating patients. He refused lunch
upon his arrival and was not persuadEl
| ed to eat until 3 o'clock. From til
afflicted inmates the physician select
ed 76 men and women, representing
all stages of the disease but seven
of these were not treated because h
had to leave to keep an appointment
in this city. He promised DR.. Harry
Lee Barnes, the superintendent of the
sanitorium and the disappointed suf-
ferers, that he would return before
he leaves Rhode Island.
Tomorrow, he will treat private pa
tents for fees for the first time in
this country.
Fhe only case in the clinic upon
which the doctor made any comment
was that of William Dash, a 17-year-
old boy, who is suffering from tuber-
culosis in the elbow. neck and lungs.
In this case Dr. friedman made
| both intraveinous and intramuscular
injections AS the boy writhed in
agony when his arm was twisted, the
doctor said: in six or eight days this
pain will be all gone, and the diseas>
will gradually disappear. If the elbow
| is now immobile. the joint will return
| to normal, but if it is not mobile 1t
will remain stiff. The pulmonary and
gland tuberculosis will also improve.
but l call your attention TO the ell
bow, because here you can see re-
suits where it is not so easy to notice
| in other forms"
DR.. Gardner r. Swarts. secretary OF
the State Board of Health, who wit
messed the clinic, remarked that he
had seldom seen a man SO intensely
| absorbed IN his WORK anu display iiS
so much sincerity and satisfaction
| He seemed peculiarly able to elevate
himself above his surroundings ana
| appeared so we'll satisfied in his own
mind that he did not seem to care II
we were skeptieal or not" he said
As to the German doctor receiving
private patients. DR.. Swarts said that
ne did not see any reason why Df.
Friedman could not treat private pa
tients for fees when they were
brought by another doctor "A good
MANY specialists of all kinds have
| come here before he added, and
| they did not come for charity. Dr.
Friedman didn't impress me as a EEL
low who comes here to play tricks.
Before going to Pascoag, DR.. Fried
mann prepared his vaccine at the
Laboratory of DIR. w. G. Dwinnei,
baoteriologist, where he expressed
| great enjoyment at the sight OF
turtle which is soon to die in the IN.
terest of science. An autopsy VIII
be performed by DIR. Friedman on
the saurian which is inoculated with
| tuberculosis bacilli.