Evening star. [volume] (Washington, D.C.) 1854-1972, 1913-03-13
HOLDS Up
TEST OF HIS SERUM
Public Health Service Will Pro-
coed Despite Refusal to
Furnish Data.

Government tests of DR.. Friedmann's
tuberculosis vaccine will be delayed as
the result of the refusal OF the Berlin
physician to impart to the public
health service the method Of making
the vaccine from his cultures or the
size of the dose.
THE tests will be delayed because Of
DR.. Friedmann's refusal to furnish
the service with the desired informa-
ton and data" said an official of the
public health service today, 'but they
will be continued, nevertheless. until
the exact value OF the physicians vac
cine is definitely determined The de-
lay in the tests will be because we will
be working in the dark Instead Of
having already established data to
work on we will have to make ex-
periments ourselves and secure them in
this way. This will take time, but
will in no way alter the decision Of
investigate the worth of DR.. Fried
manns so-called tuberculosis cure"
Applied for Patent.
1t has been learned that last July DR..
Friedman applied for patent on his
remedy in the United States. His ap-
plication is No. 71O,O6S. but it has not
been granted. Physicians are divided as
to their opinion Of DR.. Friedmann's ac-
ton in attempting to patent a cure which
might mean so much to humanity. Some
declare his actions were unethical, while
others believe he acted within his rights.
The public health service Is determined
to continue to investigate the tubercu-
losis vaccine despite the limitations Inn
posed by the Berlin physician as long as
he handles the treatment in an expert
mental or demonstrative way. Should he
attempt to sell 1t in interstate or foreign
commerce the authority of the public
health service to prevent. the sale of all
yaccines or serums in. unlicensed factories
will be asserted. A license to mapufac-
ture a vaccine or serum is not given
until rigid tests for purity and potency
are first made by the government.
Inoculates Ten at Ottawa.
OTTAWA, Ont, March 13.-Dr Fried
mann inoculated ten tuberculosis suffer-
ers yesterday in the presence of a num-
Der of leading Canadian physicians and
members of the Canadian Association for
the Prevention OF tuberculosis From thir-
ty-seven patients gathered at the gen.
eraI hospital the Berlin physician selected
ten whose cases were not beyond the in
cipient stage. Silently and scarcely glane-
ing at the spectators, he worked under
an apparent nervous tension, which re-
Taxed at the conclusion of each demon
stration.
No criticism of DR.. Friedmann's tech
nique was advanced by any one of the
group of physicians present. In this talk
he discussed the manner Of his discovery
and the precautions he took to insure it's
harmlessness.
DR.. friedman employed an electric
sterilizer, ordinary forceps and a hypo-
dermic syringe. Only once did he inter-
rupt his treatments to make explana-
tons. This was while preparing to in
ject vaccine into the leg OF a girl who
had been brought to him on a stretcher.
She suffered with muscular tuberculosis.
DIR. Friedman explained that there are
nc after effects, such as fever, when this
form of the disease Is treated.