The Cairo bulletin. (Cairo, Ill.) 1???-1928, 1913-03-09
DOCTORS SPLIT
OVER VERDICT
ON FREEDMAN
German is Called Bungler and His
First Clinic is Character zed
As Failure.
sAvANTs ARE DISAPPOINTED
Hospital for the Second Demonstra.
tion Of the Phthisis Serum
is offered.

| New York, March S.-While one
. faction of the medical fraternity
headed by DR.. Julius Breder, visit
ing physician to the Peoples Hos
ritai. sought today to prevent DIR
Friedrich Franz friedman from in
loculating any more tubercular
patients with his turtle serum. ar
lrangements were being perfected
| for another test tomorrow OF the
efficacy of the Berlin bacteriologist' s
phthisis cure
DR.. Broder, who attended DR.
Friedman first clinic on Thurs
day. today prepared written in-
dictment against pr. Friedman,
whom he charao terized as a 'medi.
cal eharlatan and bungler" DR..
Broder also appealed TO Dr. William
II. Park, director of the research
laboratory of the board OF health ia
cooperate with the county medical
society In preventing DR.. Fried
mann's smaltreatment" of patients
in New York.
AT the same time DR.. William
Irving Sirovich, Superintendent Of
state hospitals and chairman of the
medical hoard of tho Peoples .IIos-
pital. declared publicly shat he was
in favor Of giving Or. Friedman
further opportunity to test his
serum.
Fuller Test Asked.
1T is true that DR.. Friedman s
first clinic was practically a fail
Iure." said DR.. Sirovich. 81 was
present, and ! confess I was some
what disappointed But l am in
favor of giving DIR. Friedman a
fuller opportunity to prove the
worth of his serum"
The significance of DR.. Sirovich' 's
statement was apparent late this
evening when DR.. Max Landesman,
head of the Peoples Hospital, ap,
|peared at the Hotel Ansona. DR..
Landesman has been stanch sup
porter OF DR.. Friedman, holding
that the Berlin bacteriologist may
be another Behring, Koch or Pas
teur.
II am to hold a conference with
DR.. friedman and his brother, DIR.
Arthur G.. II. Friedmann." admitted
DR.. Landesman in response to ques-
tons. IF DIR. friedman is will
ing. am prepared to give. him an
opportunity to hold another clinic
at the Peoples Hospital tomorrow 2
Refuses Dying Patients.
| DR.. A. G. III, friedman, when
asked concerning the possibility OF
another test being held tomorrow
replied:
1--WE have made no definite ar
rangemcnts, yet. My brother, how
ever, intends TO 20 to the Peoples
Hospital again. We admit that yes
terday's test was unsatisfactory
but at our next clinic we are will
ing to inoculate every patient that
is presented to us, providing a com
plete history of the patients case Is
presented in German, and providing
also that the patient is not in dy-
ing condition"
My brother will treat no patient
whose condition is so grave that il
lis evident he or she will die before
the. serum has a chance to fight the
phthisis germs" 3a
DIR. A. c. II. Friedmann's atten-
tion was called to statement of DR.
Broder that DIR. F. F. Friedman Is
another DR.. Cook" and also to the
following points in DR.. Broder's
written complaints against the. ex.
tractor Of the turtle serum.
First, DIR. Friedmannis unpro.
fessional conduct.
Second, his bungling medical
methods as instanced by the inordi.
nately long time required in prep.
aration for a comparatively simple
operations"
f The bacteriologist's brother al.
most boiled over with rage.
why he exclaimed, that mar
does not know what he is talking
about. Why, do you know IL M
brother. had been fakir. he could