Atlanta Georgian., 1913-03-10
R. R.FR|EDMANN IS
|FROST, SC0FFS
HUTCHINSON
,iticiseS Selection of Cases
and Calls Technique of In
ipctinu Serum BungIing.
), nR WOODS HUTCHINSON.

on intimation that a test of the
[s3mann cure would be made at the
i ,o,s bospjtal and a limited number
srsicians be- permitted to be pres
NY first feeling was one of relief
sa+sfaction that at last the red
was TO be cut, and our visitor
~ an opportunity to show exactly
., was in his much heralded cure
20 demonstrate its powers by ac-
b experiment.
hriaf straightforward and impair
narrative of the way in which he
.hraced the opportunity will perhaps
oh,a the public to judge how he rose
III and how far he fulfilled the high
nectations aroused by his coming.
ohviously. no final conclusion or
!. ..5gment of any kind can be pro-
.,nced. as this was only the first step
Il test which it will take probably
Dntbs to complete, in the form of def
Z. . results, either positive or negative.
Selects From Twenty five.
In marked contrast to the crowds
bic5 had besieged the Waldorf, when
IL friedman first reached the hos
Il al about II o'clock there were only
ree or four patients waiting. But
a he proceeded to examine them and
4tsd their histories, others came pour
Ii into the waiting room by twos and
#rees brought in by their physicians,
.ktn some twenty or twenty five were
II attendance.
#Dr Friedman spent about an hour
Il going over these patients, and at the
N of this time dismissed as unsuited
"A the trial of his remedy all but
Nree,
#rms was good deal of disap-
Eminent to the physicians who had
&ped to see the remedy tested upon as
#de a scale as possible and upon
#ses in all stages of the disease. This
2kappointment was the keener be-
Muse the large majority of the cases
Elected were either early or middle
*bge cases, IN which the disease was
Readily progre Ssing, or patients in
@yanced stages of the disease, whose
Div hope of recovery would certainly
II past unless something could be done
a them within few weeks or months.
None Of them, however, was in any
#nse in desperate or immediate crit
&bl condition. and all but one of them
Nbuld have been regarded as fair cases
"A hopeful open-air or sanitarium
Reatment.
Two Men and a Girl.
i The cases accepted by DR.. Fried
ssnn for treatment were two men of
Rout 30 or 40 years of age, with pull
binary tuberculosis. and young
oman with bone tuberculosis of the
Pc joint. One of the male patients
sd had the disease for five years and
&t six pounds in weight. The other
Rd had it for four years and lost five
Rmds Both of them had good color
Rd appetite, no noticeable cough-in
&ct were typical cases of the long
*ed, chronic, o-called fibrous type of
n disease, which runs anywhere from
He 10 fifteen years and then some
Hnes heals up or comes to a standstill.
AS both of them, under reasonable
ffe' might be expected to live at lea
Eree TO five years and make several
Rnporary gains in the meantime. One
4 them had gained five pounds under
Pe open air treatment only a few
'onths before.
VI course, no reasonable man would
F'e expected DR.. Friedman to cure
~ large per cent of the far gone or
fpldly advancing early cases. Yet, in
lev Of the high claims made for his
Fnedy and the difficulty he has had in
ftlhg an adequate field for trial, it is
fftalnly matter for regret that he
Eemed disinclined to take a sporting
Rance.'
Syrnges Work Badly.
|8lter the disappointment of the re-
F'ed ones had been somewhat soothed,
II selected cases were taken upstairs
'he operating room, and Dr. Fried
I'm produced two small brown glass
|ue-mouthed bottles. containing his
nous vaccine, and two hypodermic
ilhses. The syringes were of the
r. generally uhed in this country ten
Hlleen years ago, but which have
4" peen generally abandoned on ac-
'lnt of the difficulty in keeping them
krile
ne doctor had great difficulty in
fu"s the syringes to work properly
'"S' be succeeded in getting one of
SSrnges to work passably. and then
I1ounced that he was about to make
ihlravenous injection-that is, to
1s' lhe needle into a superficial vein
1 INJECT the remedy directly into the
W The girl, with bone tuberculosis,
r. was his first patient. was so fat
lne superficial veins were not
} sdtly isible.
''er changing from one arm to an
'ylng bandages around the arm
'''Ne the veins swell, and two un-
geSSluI Insertions of the needle. he
t-y put the case aside and said he
~ go on to one of the other cases.
'4 consumed about 45 minutes i'm
eI 9 ms defective syringe and failing
- e d VEN and effect an injection in