Alamogordo news-advertiser., 1913-05-09
Chicago Physician Claims that
He IS Effecting Bona Eide
Cures and His System IS
Correct: IS Native Physician
PUBLIC HEALTH SERVICE
WILL SOON INVESTIGATE
Governors Of Every State in the
Union have Been Requested
to Send Representatives to
Observe the Doctors Work

Surgeon General Rupert Blue, of
the United States public health SER
vice, has detailed DR.. Julius o.
Cobb. director of the Marine Hos
pital at Chicago. to investigate the
tuberculosis cure discovered by
Dr.. Peter p. Duket, of Chicago.
This was done ut the request of for
mer Senator William Lorimer, of Hi
nois. who laid before the surgeon
general at Washington the record o
the cures, which he said had al
ready been effected under his OBJ
servation. by Dr.. Duket. in Chicago.
Mr. Lorimer is enthusiastic over
the action of Surgeon General Blue,
and deClraed that Or. Duket would
have no difficulty in convincing Dr..
Cobb. as well as the department, tha
his cure is Il success.
Surgeon General Blue told former
senator Lorimer that, as the result
OF the publicity given DR.. Fried
maun's efforts several hundred per-
sons who believed they had discOv-
cred cures had appealed TO his de-
partment for assistance and recog-
milton. In the Duket case. however
there was no question of help. but
merely of investigation.
II am highly pleased with the re.
sulC of my visit. said Mr.. Lorimer.
DIR. Duket will be able easily to
prove to DIR. Cobb that the cures he
Is affecting are bona fide ones, and
that his system is correct. We will
merely keep on administering the
remedy to the patients at the hos
pital. and DR.. Cobb will watch the
progress of the work and report to
the department.
II felt that native physician
was entitled to as much cOnsidera-
| tiOn as the department gave TO Dr.
| Friedman, and gm confident that
The results will be lar more salts
| factory. We have asked no assist
ance of any kind from the govern
meut. and will ask noe.
II have asked the governors of
every state in the union to send a
| reprs sentative to Chicago to- watch
| the work of Dr. Duket, and now
| that the government has taken ac-
tion. think they will do the
SAME"
/ While the public health service
fHas been observing at distance
the arrangements for thee CONNER
| yiali.atiun of the Friedman tuber-
| culosis treatment. ii has been stated
| hat there was little likelihood of
! any Interference with the transac-
: ton
! federal statut" forbids the in
/ .erstate shipment Tor sale of ser
ums antitOxins. or virus not pre-
pared in a factory licensed by the
I secretary OF the treasury. IL Is
assumed n ere that the Eisner-Men
delson compay iteds to prepare the
/ Friedman serum III institutions 10
Gated in differet states. II this Is
done the public health service will
regard the matter as under the
state regulation.
The chief concern of the service
appears To be that DIR. Friedman
shall give n second injection of his
serum To- patients under government
observation in various New Yort
hos pitals. The latter was asked
nearly two weeks ago to devote hii
attention to these cases In Ordel
that tse efficacy of his retatment
might be demonstrated. but thus fai
he has made no response to the re
quest
Officials OF the public health ser
vice stated they knew nothing o
the mission to Washington OF DIR
Stimson. who has been observing op
erations by DIR. Friedman. Tn,
service shows reluctance to do any
thing that might be publicly con
strued as an Interference with DR.
} Friedmann's activity so long a
> there was no apparent infringemen
; OF the the law to protect the pub
Tie from dangerous Injurious medica
| preparations.
Should no attempt be made 4
} ship the Friedman serum In In
! terstate commerce, the public healtl
I. service will probably not interfer
until II has been furnished with
: sufficiently large specimen Of th
T serum to permit an analysis rs 4
r Its purity and potency.
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Mrs. Bernie Fite. the hotel lad
of Cioudcroft was In AtamaRortl