The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-05-07
CLAIMS FRIEDMAN
DID NOT DISCOVER
TUBERCULOSIS CURE
American Physician Declares
He Learned of 1t From
His Teacher
is NOT EFFECTIVE
IN ADVANCED CASES
Ridicules Berlin Physician S
Claims, But Emphatic In
Saying that 1t Will Cure
In Incipiency

PARIS, May 6.-Dr. William J.
Beattie, of New York and New Hamp-
shire, who has spent three months in
Berlin investigating the tuberculosis
serum Of DR.. Max Piorkowski. while
enthusiastic over its good effects in
at present 1t Is almost criminal to tell
people in advanced stages of the dis
ease that they can be cured.
DIR. Beattie say 1t is pathetic in Ber-
lin to see hundred of American. who
have mortgaged their home and their
farms and everything else. hanging
about DR. Friedmann's establishment
in the expectation of being cured.
The Real Discoverer.
DR.. Friedmarn's claims to being the
discoverer of the turtle bacilli are
emphatically disputed by DR.. Beat
tie. He told your correspondent to-
day that the real discoverer was DIR.
Max Piorkowski, the eminent German
bacteriologist, in whose laboratory DR..
friedman worked. DR.. Beattie also
ridicules DR.. Friedmann's contention
that he alone possesses the secret Of
the production of the bactlli by say
ing he will take sufficient of the turtle
bacilli tubericulin to treat a thousand
patients when he sails for New York
on the Mauretania next Saturday He
has also arranged to get continuous
supply from DR.. Piorkowski.
DR.. Beattie, as said above. is en-
thusiastic over the results of the turtle
bacilli cure in the first and the be-
ginning of the secondary stages of
tuberculosis.
by cure I do not mean that the
disease is simply arrested but that
an absolute cure accompanied by abso-
lutte immunity from the return of the
disease is established. The use of the
turtle bacilli IL still in its infancy. but
judging by the progress of the last
few months / am hopeful that the
day will come when it viii be possible
to cure even advanced cases.
Has Aroused Antagonism.
While l do not wish to say any,
thing discourteous- about DIR. Fried
man," continued Dr. Beattie, his at
titude has aroused intense antagonism
in Berlin. particularly becase of the
spirit he evinced in saying: II you
want the turtle bacilli you have got to
come to me or you cannot have it,
He also made mistake by not keep
ing in touch with the Improvement and
developments in the uses of the turtle
bacilli made by his teacher and its dis
coverer, DIR. Pork owski.
Zone of the principal complaints
made against the employment of the
to the formation of absecesses at the
Of q
investigation have resulted in the
prevention of the formation Of abs
cesses OF course one of the general
objections of the injections. is that
they have been frequently the cause
OF as much harm as good. yet with
the turtle bacilli in it's perfected form
1t is absolutely harmless and Is as
claimed, living. non virulent, anti
toxic. With DR.. Piorkowski OBJ
served over 500 cases. He IL a most
remarkable man. He Is interested
applause of the crowd. He started his
experiments on cold blooded animals
with snakes.
1T was not until after he had pass
ed through the various species Of
cold blooded animals that ten years
ago he found the turtle particularly
sensitive tot he tubercular bacilli.
He succeeded in bringing the dis
covery to its present state Of efficiency
and safety.
Another Treatment.
DR.. Beattie, while in Germany.
also studied very carefully Dr. Wolf
Risner's pneumo--thorax treatment
OF tuberculosis which he says results
In wonderful Improvement in pat
tents. The treatment consists Of an
in,ecton m the pleural cavity which
causes collapse of the lungs and