The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1913-03-23
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from the Canadian visit. IL 1t could be
arranged with the local hospital
authorities.
Then began Dr.. Atkinson's weary
round of the hospitals at which the
tests We're to be made. Everywhere
he received the same 1iscouraging
word. The New York state law pro-
hibits non-residents from receiving
anything but emergency treatments in
hospitals supported by New York mon
ey. When Friedman returned from
Canada, DR.. Atkinson pleaded for a
private treatment. Again he found
the way barred for DR.. Friedman.
having no state license, was barred
from private practice.
The final blow fell upon DR.. Atkin.
son today when the head physicians
at Bellevue were forced BY the law to
turn him away from the clinic. To
Atkinson, who has made UP his mind
that the friedman culture surely
would cure him it was like being led
to the gates of heaven and then hurl.
ed into the pit. He was utterly
crushed. His buoyant step and cheer
full, husky whisper that had made him
the friend Of the newspaper men who
had worked steadily on the Friedman
story, gave way to haltering shamble
and barely audible plant of misery.
He left the hospital apparently ten
years older, every hope blasted.
| During an interruption in todays
demonstration of his tuberculosis cure
at Bellevue hospital. DR.. Friedman
had the pleasure of hearing nine of
the tubercular patients treated some
days ago describe before the gather
ing of nearly 100 prominent New York
physicians the marvellous improve.
ment In health that had already come
to them.
1t was, in the nature of a complete
triumph for the young Berlin physician
for in the audience were numbers OF
physicians openly hostile In belief,
while everyone of the medical men
present had declared themselves
from Missouri
/ DR.. John Winters Brennan, presi-
dent of the board of trustees of Bell
evue and allied hospitals, though stern
In his criticism of those persons who
had been premature in & expressing
their disbelief in the Friedman turtle
bacilli as a tuberculosis cure had
privately expressed his own doubts as
to the value of the remedy, and was
as much of the show me" class as
any skeptic present.
4 But as one enthusiastic Friedman
patient after another stepped before
the clinic, described the cessation Of
his night sweats and cough and show
ed on the official scales that he had
: gained decidedly in weight and ali
this after being injected with the cul-
ture only last Monday, the faces Of
the intently listening physicians
changed expression. Grim cynicism
gave way to frank establishment and
establishment slowly merged into open
admiration and toward the close OF
the experience meeting DR.. Fried
man was given a hearty round of ap.
: plause
Of the ten patients treated last
Monday only one disclaimed any i'm.
provement and he was a man with an
ADVANCED pulmonary trouble, as well
as tubercular pleurisy, with effusion.
Today's demonstration comprised
the injection of culture into twenty.
three patients, men, women and chill.
dren suffering variously from all
forms of tuberculosis. One Of the
most striking operations was that OF
two year old girl baby, whose neck
and face were hideously affected with
a lunpus growth, or tuberculosis of
the skin DR.. Friedman decided to
inject his remedy into the jugular
vein, an exceptionally delicate oper-
alton
, In order that the culture might
swell and show itself plainly on the
surface Of the child's neck DR.. Fried
mann held the baby up by the feet.
The child squirmed and screamed with
: fright, hut soothing it as best he
could in cultural German baby talk
) the young scientist deity inserted the
hypodermic needle into the great
; vein and In another moment the
!, child's cries of fright ceased and it
, was bundled out to make room for the
next patient
Another astonishing case was that
of man, twenty-three years old, who
had lumpus growth that practically
obliterated every feature of his face.
He had suffered from it for eight
years and had tried every known
treatment from tuberculin to the VIC
let ray without success.
AS he was wheeled into the clinic
only his eyes showed that the thing
above the sheet was a human face
DR.. friedman bent over the CHASTITY
object and one could see those ter.
rible eyes imploringly fixed on the
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