The Washington herald., 1913-04-06
SYNDICATE MAY
BACK FRIEDMAN
Promoter Says Millionaires
Are Wiling to Put Up
$1,0O0,000 for Project.
SPECIALIST UNDECIDED
Discoverer Of Turtle Serum" Refuses
to Discuss Latest Develop
ment Of "Cure."

New York, April 5.-Plans for the
formation of a s1,0O0,0O0 syndicate to
distribute the tuberculosis vaccine dis
covered by DIR. Friedrich Franz Fried
mann was announced at the Hotel An
sonia, the Friedman headquarters, to-
night by Wade Hampton de Fontaine.
who, with Asa Bird Gardiner and John
Stewart, is promoting the scheme.
Mr.. de Fontaine declared that a few
days ago four prominent men of Wall
Street, known for their philanthropy as
well as their millions, met with Col.
Gardiner and himself at the Lawyers
Club and discussed the qplan. These
four men, whose names de Fontaine re-
fuses to make public. offered to put up
s25>.O00 provided,
First-That Friedman would consent
to the plan outlined by Col. Gardiner
and the promoters, and,
Second-That the efficacy of the Fried
mann cure was established to their sat
isfaction by the clinical tests he is now
making.
While DR.. Friedman has not yet ap-
proved the plan of these promoters, ii is
known that he has been In frequent con-
sultation with them, and has expressed
the belief that their plan is perfectly
is anxious to find some means of dis
tributing his serum to American physi-
clans and at the same time keep it in
the hands of physicians he has instruct
ed in the method of administering it,
Mr.. de Fontaine explained that the
syndicate proposed to build Friedman
institute in this city; at which doctors
could receive instructions.
THE plan of distribution" he con-
tinued, 'contemplates giving treatment
free to poor people. Central laboratories
are to be established in the principal
cities and the remedy given to the hos
pitfalls. Charitable institutions would re-
ceive the vaccine free, and others would
be given as much as they could use in
the treatment of patients who could not
afford to pay
One Ardent Supporter.
While there are many more or less
well-known doctors and surgeons who
are frankly skeptical of the success of
DR.. Friedmann's cure, the German
specialist has one ardent and enthu-
siastic supporter in the person of Miss
Augusta Dey, of Jersey City. Miss Dey
was one of the first patients treated with
the turtle serum at clinic held at
the Hospital for Deformities and Dis
eases of the Joints, and today she told
OF the marvellous results worked by the
new discovery in her case
Following the death of two of her sis
tiers from pulmonary tuberculosis. Miss
Dey, who is a bookeeper for a firm of
wholesale confectioners, contracted the
disease in the bone of her left arm She
declared today that sixteen days ago
the arm was useless and had to be car
ried in sling. 1t was so painful that
she could not even turn over the ledger
pages with the left hand. 1t was at
this time that Miss Dey was treated
by Dr. Friedman to an injection of
his serum.
Arm Now Useful.
See these arms" Miss Dey said hap
PLY to an interviewer today, and rolled
up her sleeves so he could get a good
view. Sixteen days ago the left arm
was worse than useless. 1t was so pain
full that I could not use the hand at all.
1t has been ten months since / could
braid my hair. Now look (she struck at
an imaginary object and then raised her
arm in several postures)-it's just as
good as new.
There is still a little numbness. but
that will go away after the second in
lection. l can use my left arm for the
first time in ten months. and there is no
pain at all. where before the treatment
it was absolute torture
This is the first public Endorsement of
the cure by one of DR.. Friedmann's pa
tients. Miss Dey has no sympathy for
those who remain skeptical. She saws
she would like to knock them down.
with the arm he cured.