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


in the United States who actually have
seen the tubercle bacillus developed by
DR. Franz Friedman, has returned to
Atlanta after attending the Friedman
.linfcs in New York city. He declares
mat Friedmanns tests and demOnstra
lions have left him a skeptic in regard
10 the great claims made for the Berlin
doctors turtle serum.
friedman is earnest, excltable and
entirely in the hands of his grasping
brother from the West" is DR.. Thrash's
-umming up OF the personality of the
foreign practitioner
Leaving here early last week DR..
Thrash arrived in New York in time
10 witness Friedmann's first demon |
stration of the much talked of turtle !
serum to three persons. selected by the
Berlin 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 |
Friedman awaited their coming. The |
Berlin doctor displayed every sign of
near nervous collapse. Fumbling with |
an ungraduated, old-style syringe, !
Friedman drew from a cork -stoppered |
bottle about half a syringe full of
brown stuff, nervously explaining in
German that the first patient was af-
fiicted with pulmonary tuberculosis.
Friedman tried to find a 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-
venously. 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, Dr. Thrash
asked Friedman concerning the first
patient ..
s-"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:
This fellow doubts my word! He
doubts my statement"
Dr. Thrash smilinglv said: d.
friedman, you misunderstood. l did
not doubt your word. I merely asked be-
cause / wished to be set right in the
matter"
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 Friedman
leaking syringe, hurriedly gathered
some of the stuff upon a spatua and,
rushing to the hospital laboratory, made
stains of the mysterious fluid. These
were viewed through a standard micro
scope. 1t was the first time since
friedman announced his cure that
any one besides Friedman himself ac-
tually had seen what his serum locke
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-
cillus mixed in common salt solution
1t appeared to Dr. 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 a serum
is to drop sterilized balls or shot into
such mixture and before injection be
certain that the composition has thor
oughly absorbed the germs. The bot
ties OF serum exhibited by friedman
We're literally Clogged with masses OF
bacillus, declared Dr. Thrash, thus
preventing any actual count Of the
g rms as required by even decent
standards of modern medicine.
Il noted that Friedman took no
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the Sinai clinic or the one next da\
when he was in charge Of his friends
Friedman merely looked a the pa
TENTS as they appeared, dipped his old
STYLED instrument into the brown mix
tule and injected it without dlffereh-
tiating between severe and mild cases
Dodged Pulmonary Gases.
Friedman fought shy Of pulmonary
cases frankly expressing the wish 70
treat only bone cases. Bone tubercu-
losis, l 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.
q got nothing out of attending his
clinics said Dr. Thrash today. Moth
ing in technique. nothing in practice
nor in theory. However. the earnest
ness of the fellow was impressive. II
believe he is in the grasp of his brother
from Denver, who sees dollars ahead