New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-03-23
NOT GOING TO BERLIN,
DECLARES FRIEDMAN
Assistant Says He Is, but Turtle
Germ DiSCoverer Denies
1t Vigorously.
FIRST TESTS ABOUT OVER
Three Hundred Medical Men
Present at Clinic in Bellevue
May Arrange to Treat
100 on Thursday.

Despite reports that DIR. Friedrich Franz
Friedman had decided to curtail his visit
to America and get back to Berlin. the
turtle germ discOverer positively denied
Yesterday at the Ansonia that he had any
plans in mind one way or the other. 1t
had been reported that the doctor would
90 to Berlin and return in a few weeks
TO make his second injections in patients
already treated.
This statement came from DR.. NJ. a.
Sturm. house physician at the Ansonia,
a newly appointed assistant to the Berlin
man.
DIR Friedman has decided TO return
TO Berlin" he said. He will take me
along to teach me his methods. He will
be back I'm three or four weeks"
Ten minutes later. however, DR.. Fried
mann in his apartments repudiated his
assistants statement. 81 have made no
decision whatever on the subject" he de-
clared. Il have no idea when l Will so
back
The black to Berlin" idea will not down
however, as It is known that for some
time DR.. Friedman has been anxious TO
60, if only for a time. He has been res
tive under the restrictions placed upon
him by the medical authorities and the
physicians of the United States Public
Health and Marine Hospital Service, UNI
der whose direction the clinics in Belle
vue and Mount Sinai hospitals have been
held Until the time arrives for the sec
ond infections of his cultures there will
be apparently little for Or. Friedman TO
DO in this city.
DR.. Friedman said he thought the
tests under the supervision Of the gov
eminent physicians were practically at an
end though there might be a few more
patients treated in Bellevue Hospital. a
contagious disease has appeared in the
test" ward at Mount Sinai. and it was
said that operations there had been in
definitely postponed.
May Hold Monster Clinic.
Dr. Friedman showed his inclination
TO conduct clinics only under the super
vision of the government physicians
when he made known yesterday his re-
quest TO Dr.. Stimson that the cases OF
children treated at the Hospital for De-
formities and Joint Diseases on Thursday
ne included in those TO be supervised by
the Public Health Service. In his letter
was a request that another clinic be held
at the Hospital for Deformities and Joint
Diseases on Thursday. IL Drs. Ander-
son and StimsOn consent to be present
DR.. Frauenthal, it was said, would ar
range for monster clinic in which at
least hundred patients would be treated.
Dr. Friedman said il was his desire
% treat at the proposed clinic only cases
# visible" tuberculosis, as the most
adorable for observation. The results
obtained in these cases will do much. in
he germ discoveries estimation, toward
establishing his position. ANY physi-
cian,' he said. "can test the results by
merely using his eyes"
At the government clinic in Bellevue
yesterday twenty-three patients received
the Friedman treatment, many being
very severe cases. The clinic was public
two or three hundred persons, physicians
and medical students. watching the germ
discoverer at work.
Baby Gets Treatment.
When he decided to inject the culture
into the jugular vein of a two-year-old
baby, afflicted with a large tubercular
sore on the lace, tuere was leellnS OF
tenseness in the room. The doctor went
about his work deity. but the child cried
bitterly, and at the final pUncture of the
needle every one in the room was relieved
A man suffering with lupus was treated.
DIR. Friedman announced that signs Of
change in the face. which was covered
with sores. ought TO take place in ten
days.
Eight persons who had been treated in
Bellevue last Monday were brought into
the operating room just before yesterdays
clinic began, and examined by Or. Fried
mann. Some said that they felt i'm
proved, but it was generally conceded
that there was lack of enthusiasm in
their statements. All but one, however
had gained in weight.
DR.. friedman received yesterday a
message from Professor Schleich, who
has charge of his work in Berlin. Dr.
Friedman denied DR.. Schlelch had urged
him to return TO Berlin, as reported, but
merely told him of the successful condi-
tioEs of patients.