Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-14
FRIEDMAN CURE
D|SAPPOINTS
DR.. THRASH
Atlanta Physician Sees Serum
Test in New York and Fears
German Is "StaIIing."

81. the United States who actually have
..r the tubercle bacillus developed by
7- Franz Friedman, has returned to
,,rs0ra after attending the Friedman
.,f,i.e in New York city. He declares
+,o+ Frledmanns tests and demonstra-
lions have left him a skeptic in regard
e., the great claims made for the Berlin
doctors turtle serum.
friedman is earnest, excitable and
Entirely in the hands of his grasptng
brother from the West" is DR.. Thrash's
summing up of the personality of the
foreign practitioner.
Leaving here early last week, DR..
Thrash arrived in New York in time
~ witness Friedmann's first demon
srration Of the much talked of turtle
serum to three persons, selected by the
Ba-lin physician. None of these cases
was a typical tubercular, declares DR..
Thrash The trio were presented to
the hospital authorities, along with
more than 100 other victims of the
dread disease.
Berlin Savant Near Collapse.
The three patients were hastily mar
Friedmann awaited their coming. The
Berlin doctor displayed every sign of
near nervous collapse. Fumbling with
an ungraduated, old-style syringe,
Fripdmann drew from a cork stoppered
bottle about half a syringe full of
brown stuff, nervously explaining in
German that the first patient was af-
ficted with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Friedman tried to find vein In the
forearm in which to inject the fluid
The patient was fat Tying off the ell
bow without the use of turniquet,
Friedman failed to swell the veins of
any extent. He then abandoned the
effort to introduce the serum intra-
yenouslv He then exposed the pa
tents leg, and finally after losing half
the quantity of serum from the leak
ing hypodermic syringe, managed to
plunge the needle into a muscle and
force the mixture under the skin.
The crude technique was repeated in
the following two subjects. At the
conclusion Of the clinic, DIR. Thrash
asked friedman concerning the first
patient
Did YOU say, doctor" queried DR.
Thrash that the first case shown was
pulmonary tuberculosis ?"
friedman Becomes Angry.
Immediately Friedman heatedly eX-
planned in German, that he certainly
did, and, walking to his brother stand
ing at the other side of the clinic, shout
ed eXcitedly, in French:
doubts my statement"
Dr. Thrash smilingly said; "Dr.
Friedmann, you misunderstood | die
not doubt your word. I merely asked be-
cause / wished to be set right in the
natter
Immediately after the clinic Fried
mann retired from the room and re-
fused to see reporters or medical men
for the remainder of the day.
An inferno at the Sinai hospital
where the clinic took place, finding an
accumulation of the serum on the floor
where it had fallen from Friedmann's
leaking syringe, hurriedly gathered
some Of the stuff upon a spatula and,
rushing to the hospital laboratory, made
stains of the mysterious fluid. These
were viewed through standard micro
scope 1t was the first time since
Fedmann announced his cure" that
any one besides Friedman himself ac-
ually had seen what his serum looked
like under the chemists glass.
Germ Count impossible.
DR. Thrash declares the Friedman
bacillus appears to be as short as the
bovine tuberculosis bacillus and as thin
as the human tuberculosis bacillus,
but more pointed than the human germ.
The mixture from which DR.. friedman
drew his injections was isolated ba-
cIus mixed in common salt solution.
1t appeared to DIR. Thrash that Fried
mann had hurriedly placed some of his
germs in a common bottle, poured in
the salt solution and then prepared for
his clinic.
The modern way to prepare serum
is TO drop sterilized balls or shot into
such a mixture and before injection be
certain that the composition has thor
oughly absorbed the germs. The bot
lies of serum exhibited by Friedman
were literally clogged with masses OF
bacillus, declared Dr. Thrash, thus
preventing any actual count or the
germs as required by even decent
standards of modern medicine.
noted that Friedman took no
pains to graduate his dosage either at
me Sinai clinic or the one next day
when he was in charge of his friends
fNedmann merely looked at the pa
uents as they appeared, dipped his old
styled instrument into the brown mix
lure and injected 1t without differen-
Hating between severe and mild cases
Oodged Pulmonary Cases.
friedman fought shy of pulmonary
cases frankly expressing the wish to
treat only bone cases. Bone tubercu-
.oSis, might add, is the easiest form of
tuberculosis to treat. 1t yields much
more easily to all forms of medication
Dr. Thrash declared that Friedman
seemed to be "stalling" throughout his
entire two days demonstration.
got nothing out of attending his
sAhlcs," said DR. Thrash today. Moth
ing in technique, nothing In practice
nor in theory. However, the earnest
ness Of the fellow was impressive. I
eeAeve he is in the grasp of his brother
rom Denver. who sees dollars ahead