The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-07
FRIEDMAN TREATS
THREE LIGHT CASES
Refuses to Give Serum to 30
More Serious White
Plague Victims.
At PEOPLES HOSPITAL
Doctors in Clinic Say lie Lacks
skill and Doubt
Cure"
| Ar PEOPLES HOSPITAL

Dr Frederick Franz fr.dmauu II
Berlin carried into effect yesterday his
promise to treat tuberculosis sufferers
with the serum which he says H. a cure
for consumption.
He gave the treatment tn three
patients, Two men ana one woman, at
'hc Peoples Hospital. N COS Second
avenue. Just below Thirteenth street
The three into whose veins and mus
ccs he injected his serum We're chosen
from group OF fifty patients who had
been gathered by Supt Dr.. Max Lam
desman and the directors.
Dr. Friedman spent nearly two
hours in examining these fifty patients
aud passing upon their records.
The two men chosen were in the
incipient stages Of consumption and
were admittedly gaining weight under
the regular treatment to which they
had been subjected for the last two or
three months. The third patient, the
woman, was supposed to be suffering
from tuberculosis of the knee joint, al
though the physician who brought her
i'm refused To sign a statement swear
ing that he knew she was tubercu-
losis patient.
The patients whom Dr. Friedman
refused TO treat were in all stages Of
the disease. one case. with which he fatty
refused to have anything to do, was that
of "A young woman VINO had but a few
weeks to live. This patient was brought
in by DR.. julius Broder. one OF the
house STAFF OF the Peoples Hospital.
pne OF the conditions undcr whicn
Dr. friedmhhn agreed 10 make MS tests
was mat none Dut professional men
be admitted Consequently what went
ON IN the clinic ls known only from
what the doctors said. That there were
nifty patients waiting for the treatment
IL the statement or Moses Greenoaum,
presideht OF the hospital Dr l-ahdes-
man said there were Two dozen
ii was c!ear mat 'he score or more
physicians VINO were present came away
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service COMMISSIONERS VINO was present
sal" 'ha' II" 'houeht pT' frlehinahn hao
so' somewhere IN ms WORK out that ne
Iacked all techhic' lie SAID mat he
ought not to he Judged too quickly and
thst ne might DO better another time.
In" fact that most or DR.. Frtedmann's
training had heen IN laboratory might
nave mad something TO do with his lack
or technlc n" thought
Dr NJ. Girdansky Of %" East Broad
way seemed 10 sum up the attitude Of
tho majority OF N" doctors present
when he said:
1T is An outrage to call Or. Fried
mann fakcr NV criticism !s that he
dld not TAX" test cases. and that he
used - syringe that was useless. He
seemed I" have a great aversion to
American instruments. preterrng his
own glass syringe, III" use of which