Evening capital and Maryland gazette. (Annapolis, Md.) 1910-1922, 1913-01-24
TO TELL SECRETOF
TUBERCULOSIS CURE
DR.. Friedmann's Serum Being
Stolen by Rivals, He viii
Make it Public.
MAY BRING 1T TO U. S.
Many Americans Reached Berlin Pen
niiess 10 the Hope Of Relief.

niiess 10 the Hope Of Relief.
A special cable despatch to the
New York Sun of January % from
Berlin, says
A new turn will be given to the
heated controversy IN the medical
world as to the merits of live non
virulent bacillus as remedial agent
for tuberculosis when DR.. Friedrich
Franz Friedman, according to his
announced intention submits his cul-
ture to the imperial health authori-
ties.
Or Friedmann's announcement
of his discovery before the Berlin
Medical Society last November Great
ed a sensation and the fact that he
refused to describe his serum, which,
it is asserted will cure all but the
most advanced cases If tuberculosis,
caused some doubts as to the authen-
ITCHY of his discovery, although rep
reseutatives of various governments
were sent here to investigate the mat
ter
"Dr. Freidmann's action in sub
mitting his serum before the imper-
ial medical authorities will afford
the first opportunity for judgment by
sci antific medical circles as to its
therapeutic value and will close the
first stage of one of the most bitter
controversies that have ragged since
the alleged discovery by Professor r
Koch Of the tuberculosis germ.
"Dr. Friedman announced that he
would turn his culture over to the
Government with the suggestion that
the imperial authorities designate a
number of physicians whom by lec-
lures and demonstrations he will in
struet how to use the culture for the
treatment of tuberculosis.
In order to win or secure DR..
Friedmann's secret some of his broth
er scientists resorted to extreme
measures, as, for example, the extrac-
tion from patients of the germs which
DR.. friedman had injected, thus
seeking to get his culture of live, non
virulent bacilf. This moved Or.
friedman Immediately to give his
culture to the Government health au-
thorities and he is also considering
the question Of personally taking it
to America in the near future.
fThis is shown by the fact that D..
A. B. Held, of Pittsburg. Pa, who
came to Berlin in the hope of return
ing home with a sufficient culture to
save his consumptive wife, was today
hande several phials Of a culture
fro N the laboratory of Or. Pierskow-
ski, which, it was stated, were
friedman bacilli. DR.. Friedman
said that DR.. Pierskowski was the
bacteriologist who worked with his
bacilli in the earliest stages of the
experiments in 1901, but that the
bacilli given out by him was not the
culture with which he (Friedmanl) is
having success now and, furthermore,
that in order to protect those who
may become sick from a bacili which
he declares to be dangerous to use
and for the action of which he can
not be responsible if applied to hu-
mans he (Friedmann) will give out
the real curative Friedman bacilli.
"It became known that several ply
S1CAduS III DClAlAl UdNC DCCn
on live germ treatment for tuber-
culosis which they believe to be DR..
Friedmann's germ. DIR. Felix KLEIN
perer extracted the germ from the
leg of a policeman who had been inoc-
ulated by DR.. friedman and made
cultures which he is now using. He
believes il is the Friedman bacilli.
He declares that he found DR.. Fried
mann's method a distinct advance
ment in the treatment of tuberculosis.
DR.. Friedman declares that neither
DR.. Klempers sr nor others have the
real serum, but in order to end the
controversy he will give it out to the
imperial authorities.
1.-TWO of the phias in DR.. Heid's
possession will be turned over TO Drs.
Trudo and Baldwin, of Saranac Lake,
N. Y, for experimental purposes.
DR.. Held. of Pittsburg, will remain
in Berlin for several days to attend
DR.. Friedmann's demons trations. DIR.
Held and DR.. Otto Carl Stutz, oi
Upper Sandusky, Ohio, who have beer
here f)r treatment, state that the
| genuine friedman culture will soor
be available in the United States
They urge in the most emphatic man
ner that tuberculosis sufferers re,
main at home and not attempt the
journey to Berlin. There are verl
pathetic cases here of some Ameri
cans who sold everything they pos
sessed in the world in order to cons
to Berlin in the hope of being curet
| hv DIR friedman.