The Bridgeport evening farmer., 1913-02-26
OFFERS CURE
To GOvERNM MENT
Berlin Scientist to Sub
nit White Plague
BaCIIIi Tomorrow
Or. Friedman Says He Doesn't
Claim His. Culture Is PanaCea
For Death

New York. Feb. 26-The revolving
storm doors of the WaIdorf-Astoria,
| always rather busy as storm doors go,
| turned on more tuberculosis sufferers
| in a few hours, today, than possibly
| ever went into and out Of the famous
| hostelry in all its preHious existence.
The big hotel was the mecca of
| white plague victims because it housed
! a. blonde young German, DR.. Frederick
/ Franz Friedman, the Berlin specialist
| who came here aboard the Kron
Prinzessin Ceci1ie and brought with
| him what he declares is cure for
| tuberculosis in every form and age ex-
| cept the absolutely hopeless cases.
MY culture is not cure for death, -
the young doctor explained in his best
English. The fame Of the Berlin
scientist grew amazingly overnight
when it became known that he refused
Banker FinIay's offer of s., ,0oO, 600 for
| proof that his cure is genuine. The
lung sufferers proverbiaIly are the
most optimistic and hopeful of all the
sick people of the earth. So, the
white plaguers, today. made the pill
grimage to the WaIdorf-Astoria to
| consult the expert. from abroad but
they were doomed to initial disap-
pointments.
DR.. Friedman declined to consult pa
tients or make any tests until tomor-
rangements with the United States
governments
The government was the first to
welcome Dr. Friedman to America
The first man of the revenue cutter
that went down the bay to meet the
liner was DR.. Milton H. Foster, of
the United States public health and
marine hospital service. He was the
personal representative of the surgeon
general. He at once asked Dr.
an yn111d 1T,
to the government for test and the
German unhesitatingIy accepted the
proposition. Details of the experiment
were left to conference. tomorrow
morning at the Waldorf with a iahora-
tory man of the marine hospital SER
vice.
Extreme nervousness and intensity
were the most striking characteristics
OF Dr. Friedman when he was seen,
today, in his hotel apartment. His
shock of blonde hair stood upright on
his head, wholly innocent of comb or
brush, and his close cropped blonde
moustache worked nervousIy, showing
the most extreme animation. His
dancing, shifting steel blue eyes were
highly expressive, dilating with won
der as he tried vainly to catch the
questions of an interviewer, spoken in
English to his secretary Charles De-
Vidal Hundt, a former neWspaperman-
and again contracting to pinpoints but
blazing with fire as he told of the
wonders of his baciIli and of his faith
in the action of his brain-child
The most noticeable feature of his
costume was a pair of black rubber
overshoes which he wore even in his
bedroom. These were over dapper
patent leather button shoes and paved
the way for modish gray spats. His
longs legs encased in black trousers
with part gray stripes to match the
spats and of inordinate lightness
bIue serge coat made the scientist
look more like a businessman than a
professor and this was made more
pronounced by a, striped waistcoat. DR..
Friedman is Sc years old and a ma
tive of Berlin
At precocious age he was gradual
ed from the University F,riedburg and
later from the University of RArIin
belng awarded honors for exceptional
services. With Hundt and DIR. Arthur
Charles Henry Friedman a brother
of Colorado Springs the young scien-
tlst, today, was prepared to meet all
comers. Relaxed and at ease, he
smiled nonchalantly when receivinp
1nterviewers but with the first ones
ton there came a most astounding
change.
Down went the elbows to the knees
and DR.. Friedman was all hunched
over, chin on clinched fist A frown
puckered his >brows, his mousta che
commenced to work up and down and
ne was plainly a bundle of concen-
rated nervous energy. He under
stands enough English to get the drift
of conversation and occasionally his
excitement prompted him to reply in
English. to questions but mostly he
talked through his two inrerpreters
W1de-eyed like an ingenious child,
he heard questions and then, brows
contracted, blue eyes flashing. he
poured forth long answers in German.
tuberculosis can be cured,'' he
said. 'I have cured it. am still
curing it, But cure is perilous
word. In perhaps 1000 of the 1,SOo or
1000 cases that I have treated in two
years, the cure has been complete but
l never say have cured until rnany
months after the treatment has been
begun. In most of the cases I say l
have arrested the disease. It is diff |
cult to say when tuberculosis is en- |
tirely cured. 1t can be cured with |
my culture but sometimes the cure |
is a matter of months where the dis
ease has obtained a start
But say that every case of tub |
erculosis, in any form, can be cured |
absolutely with my bacilli except the
Enthusiastically hopeless cases. NV cul- |
ture is not a cure for death.
MY germs of themselves are not
absolute. The use of them counts for |
a great deal of their efficacy.
Il might say that the action of my
remedy is so percent of the cure"
Dr. Friedman said this in answer |
to question as to why he had pa |
tented his culture in so many coun- |
tries and why he was so Ioathe to |
give it to other physicians
You see, much depends on the ad-
ministration,'' he resumed 'I might |
hand you some of my germs but they |
would do you no good Physicians to