Semi-weekly herald., 1913-04-07

III Weth lie VIII give hio Seiuh w
the American medical profession. He
will not tell how to make the liquid,
but will arrange so that all reputa-
BILE physicians will be able to obtain
the remedy and treat tuberculosis pa
tients everywhere. The doctors de-
clares all' patients treated here re-
Gently are progressing marvelously.
(By DR.. Charles S. Noble, head of the
Noble Hospital of Seattle, Wash.
Written for the United Press.)
NEW YORK, April 3.-More than
three weeks ago | came to New York
with special commission to investi-
gate and report upon the widely her.
aided tuberculosis cure of DR.. Fried
erich Franz Friedman. / came de-
termined to keep my mind free of
prejudice, but | must say in frank
ness that my attitude unavoidably was
that of skeptc. Now, after three
weeks of almost daily contact with
cry clinic conducte' by him in New
York during that period and after
many interviews with subjects treated
by him, | am making the following
report to the Seattle people interested
in my investigation:
| believe that DR.. Friedman has
AL OF hat rot
has been made in the direction of a
certain cure for tuberculosis. | be-
lieve that he has cure for many
forms of tuberculosis that heretofore
have not been amenable to treatment.
believe his culture will prove es-
pecially effcacious in cases of bone
and glandular tuberculosis and | ex-
pect it to be widely used within the
next few years for immunication.
From being skeptic | have become
hopeful that time, the onIy infallible
test, will show that the German saw
ant has produced real cure for the
worlds greatest scourge-tuberculo
mann may have, he is not faker.
He personally is certain he has a
cure. Ultimately a cure for tuber-
culosis is certain. DR.. Friedman says
he has it. am inclined after seeing
his results to accept his statement un-
til it is disproved.
NV Grct int u,ith nr Er;aJ
mann was not reassuring. He was
suspicious, resentful of too close ques-
tioning and resentful of any attempt
to draw him into a scientific discus
sion of his discovery or his methods
l attended his first clinic. The coun-
try already knows of the storm OF
criticism resulting from that initial
demonstration. Like every other
American physician, was stunned by
the Germans utter disregard of even
the elemental dictates of aseptic sur
gerry. His awkward use of none
too carefully sterilized hypodermic
his painful nervousness and apparent
lack of technique naturally heightened
the suspicious of the medical frater-
nifty. The newspapers were loud in
their criticism. Save that he was
less nervous, there was little improve
ment in the visitors work at the sec
ond clinic; but at the third demon
stration there was noticeable improve
nd af -. -.
DR.. Friedmann's use of the needle
and his preservation of aseptic con-
ditions has been beyond criticism.
Still | saw little to kindle en-
thusiasm until the end of the first
eight-day period and it became possi-
Bile to note results. Even then the
unanirnity of the optimism of the pa
t:ents proved nothing, because of the
traditional optimism of consumptiyes.
But as days went by and the same
unbroken train of favorable reports
from those treated, continued, it was
no longer possible to deny that some
wonder was being worked. Patients
weakened by night-sweats, racked
with coughs and burned up with aft
ernoon fever, almost without excep-
ticn continued to insist that they had
obtained relief. They backed up their
statements by showing gains in
weight, while those who had been car
ried to clinics with swollen and stiff
fened legs, demonstrated their i'm
provement by walking about on the
hitherto useless limbs.
Gradually the doubters ceased 10
voice their adverse opinions, but still
skeptical. awaiting impatien''y the
governments report. The open sus-
picion, almost derision thas r;arked
the newspapers and physicians re-
ception of DR.. Friedman, changed
perceptibly. More interest was shown
in the clinics and some Of the high
est ranking men in New York's medi-
cal profession found time to attend
them. The climax came at Bellevue,
March %, when an uninterrupted
chain of favorable reports from pa
tients, telling of their improvement
finally eliminated in a round of ap-
plause for the formerly derided Wis