The Richmond Virginian. (Richmond, Va.) 1910-1920, 1913-03-22

he is conducting under the auspices of the
United States government and permitted by the
New York authorities as courtesy to officers
of the army
Some time ago the Roanoke Times warned
victims of tuberculosis and their friends not
TO be too hopeful of DR.. Friedmanns method,
lest they suffer from bitter disappointment This
newspaper prefers to look at new and startling
things and ideas a long time before accepting
them. to study all the evidence obtain ble for
and against. We have read with care and at
tention the proceedings of the Medical society
of Berlin. including the most eminent doctors
of Germany, at the meeting at which the tuber-
culosis serum discussed Presumably those
doctors understood clearly the tremendous i'm
portance of the subject and the responsibility
resting on them. The most adverse position on
the Friedman discovery was one of conser-
vatism 1t taken by doctors who had not
tested and who said that while they were in
clined to believe, they would wait and see for
themselves, before reaching final conclusion
other doctors said positively, their profess
siOnal and personal regulations that they had
seen the used by DR. Friedman cure
tuberculosis quickly and thoroughly that no
trace of it remained. The Virginia State health
commissioner took post graduate course at
Munich and probably knows some of those doe
tors by reputation.
Trckery, quackery imagination, hypnotism,
psychological influence and mental impressions
may relieve rheumatic pains headache and
stomach troubles. They cannot take tubercu-
losis bacilu out of the sputum or reduce tuber-
culous swellngs. The doctors say the serum
noke telegraphed to New York for direct in
formation. TIE reply he received is published
elsewhere and makes strong evidence.
The Virginia public would approve heartily
and gratefully If State health department
would invite DIR. Friedman to this State and
permit him to practice patients volunteering
to undergo his treatment This would be fol-
lowing the example of Canada, a conservative
country where doctors as cautious and as
well informed 1t would be taking
the lead in this country.
We have In Virginia many hundreds OF
tuberculosis cases Some Of the victims every
day are crossing the dead line beyond which
there is hope from friedman or anybody
else. The disease works silently invisibly i'm
perceptibly. in many, many cases advancing its
ravages with deadly stealth so that none know
when doom is fixed and possibility of cure is
gone. If a hundred men shut in a mine
and knew of them were suftocaung
every hour, all the resources of the State and
every man in the State would be rushed to the
rescue If necessary. We have people dying,
going over the dead line daily We have a
hope and. from all the evidence attainahle, a
strong probability, of being able to save some
of them. Virginia people.
The evidence that the serum does no harm,
causes no injury, is conclusive and indisputable.
The evidence that 1t cures is strong, II not
conclusive, Why should not our health depart
ment do what the United States government and
Canada are doing? If il Is possible to bring
DR.. Friedman here by urgent invitation and
permission of the State board authorities why
should we wait for the New York doctors and
authorities to be convinced finally. their APP
parent hostility, their doubts and scruples over
come and all their bubbles met?-Roanoke
I Times.