Ottumwa tri-weekly courier. [volume] (Ottumwa, Iowa) 1903-1916, 1913-05-01
kEPFORD OPPOSES
FRIEDMAN SALE.
STATE LECTURER ON TUBERcU-
Losls WOULD HAVE CURE
INVESTIGATED.

ford, state lecturer on tuberculosis, Is
displeased with the report that DR.. F.
#. Friedman has sold the American
rights in his anti-tuberculosis vaccine
for @125,0 900 and $l,S00,000 in stock in
thirty-six friedman institutes to be
organized in az many states, with 9
total capitalization OF $5,400,000.
DR.. Kepford declares that DR.. Fried.
mann Is putting his tuberculosis cure
on q commercial basis, which may be
dangerous to the people of this coun-
try. Before any nrm having the vac
cine rights Is permitted to establish
In Iowa and advertise cure for tuber.
culosis, he suggests that Governor
Clarke appoint state commission to
investigate the cure and require any
one wishing to establish an institute
to secure the sanction of the commits.
sion. The commission should be COM
posed of men familiar with tubercu-
losis and the treatment of the disease,
he says.
Does Not Approve Of Way.
| II do not want to do anyone an in.
jury, but do not approve of the way
DR.. Friedman has been introducing
the reported cure for tuberculosis"
said DR.. Kepford. "He may have some
thing good, but prefer to wait for the
government report before making any
effort to get an institute established in
Des Moines. Undoubtedly Iowa will be
| selected as one of the states for one
Of the Institutes, for this Is rich
state, and there is plenty of money
here.
II the newspaper reports are true,
and believe they must be, DR.. Fried
mann Is putting his cure on COM
mercial basis. This puts a scientific
man in light to be condemned. Others
who have made important discoveries
In the treatment Of tuberculosis have
announced their find to scientific men
and have given the results to the
world. 1t appears that DR.. Friedman
is not going to do this for there Is
millions of dollars In It.. The people
who contract the disease will go any
where and spend the last cent they
have to be cured, so that the institutes
may coin money, II they are estab-
lished.
III l understand 1t, the American
rights have been sold to drug house
In New York. This would mean that
state rights would be sold and the So
called cure would be placed in the
hands of men with no conscience what.
ever. irresponsible physicians might
get control and this would be extreme.
ly dangerous to the people of our
state. Dr. Friedman does not claim
to cure tuberculosis In the advanced
stages, but with an institute properly
managed, allowed to advertise as 1t
pleases, it can readily be seen what an
injury might result.
Commission 10 Urged.
I'VE should safeguard our people by
the appointment Of a commission to in.
Institutes are established in Iowa un. |
der supervision OF the commission"
DR.. H. l.. Sayler, city health officer,
He says that he does not approve Of
Producing his reported cure and that |
the experiments being made, he does |
not wish to indorse It.
1--WE are watching the tests in the |
east" said Dr. Sayler. 1T does not
seem to me to be the proper thing for |,
to drug house and for this reason we !
taking it up. II the cure is proven to
be all that Is claimed, we will gladly |
accept it. But this Is too great thing
to be handled In the way it appears to
be. The world should be given the
secret and the cure should not be put
on commercial basis.
While 1t might be good thing to
have one of the proposed Friedman
institutes established in Des Moines, II
shall wait until we know more about It
before making any attempt to get one
of Them