Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-12
FRIEDMAN CURE
ASSA|LED BY AN
ALLAN TAN
Or. Louis C. RougIin Calls
Germans Claim of White
Plague Remedy False.

DIR. Louis C. Rouglin, of Atlanta.
widely known as specialist in diseases
of the lungs, today spared no rhetoric
in denouncing the so-called cure for
tuberculosis reported to have been dis
covered by DR.. Frederick Frank Fried
mann, the Berlin physician, now in
New York
DR.. Rouglin said in emphatic terms
that the Berlin doctors claims are
false.
There is no longer reason to wait
for results in the treatment of patients
injected with this serum for which
Friedman claims so much" said DIR.
Rouglin.
Calls Secrecy SenseIess.
This Friedman is evidently a fraud
or at least promulgates most peculiar
ethics in connection with his practice
Of medicine. Why the secretiveness?
Why the continued delay in telling sci
ence what he claims to have discover
ed? His dallying is senseess and at
the same time dangerous.
If this man, practically unknown
until reporter brought him into the
lfmelight, has discovered even a rem
edy, let alone a cure for tuberculosis
it belongs to him no more than does
the air, the sky-any of Gods gifts.
His first duty is to manl1ind-not Dr.
friedman. Science will monetarily
support him if his wares establish his
claims. If his claims do not bear out
all he has said in regard to his cure
no one is the loser-save Friedmann-
and what is one man in the march of
scientific progress?
LET Him Work-Not Talk"
Martyrs have died in pursuing the
problems of science. Let friedman
work-not talk. If his cure is real let
him release it at once to the world.
IL 1t is not let him acknowledge his
error at once to the world This is no
| time for talk and inaction. Too much
depends upon the question of stamp
ing out tuberculosis to allow interior
ers with cures to tamper with the
problem. Too many lives hang by
! threads to permit the trafficking in
human souls such as Friedman might
attempt if he has no cure
l, for one, am convinced he has no
cure. I have read news reports of his
demonstration of the Friedman serum
in the New York hospital and | am
| quite as willing to believe the state
| ments Of such men as DR.. Woods
| Hutchinson that the man is a fraud . :
am to believe the declaration of ,
paid secretary that DR.. friedman has
cure-will in time turn it over for
scientific investigation and that sort If
thing.
Serum Only a Remedy.
| From a purely scientific basis-one
entirely too complicated for the lay
mind am assured in my own heart
| that the extraction of an anti-tubercu-
losis serum from a sea turtle to cure
consumption is not compatible with
| truth. Such serum has been produce I
| before. 1t is a known remedy for con-
sumption, but it is no cure. Fife IN
years before friedman was heard
from, an obscure German laboratory
man had developed remedy from tur-
tie serum He made claim to no cure.
| Science took up his formula and theory
tried it out and found it efficacious in
cases of tuberculars who were in the
first stages Of the disease. To claim
1t a cure was putting it entirely too
strong.
Surely, this man Friedman cannot
expect us to swallow all of his bait.
1t is entirely too mysterious a mouth
full, as yet"
Raps Injection Discovery.
| Just one more thing Friedmann
| has no right to the claim that he is the
first man to have discovered that in
| lection Of tuberculosis baccili into the
veins or muscles could be used as an
aid in the fight against tuberculosis.
The first man who really discovered
this was Trodeau, an American of Sar-
anac Lake, who, in 1900, put forward
this assertion and his experiments were
borne out by results later
Altogether Friedman has nothing
new to show-nothing new in technique
or theory. All this press agent stuff
he has been getting is mere talk-noth-
ing more
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