The Topeka state journal. [volume] (Topeka, Kansas) 1892-1980, 1913-03-07
TRIES new CURE
DIR. friedman Administers
Serum to Three Patients.
German Scientist Branded as
Faker by Doctor.

New York, March Flush faced and
red with anger, DR.. Frederick Franz
Friedman, the Berlin bacteriologist
and his brother, DR.. Arthur c. H
friedman strobe away from the hum
BILE little Peoples hospital in Second
avenue yesterday afternoon.
The German specialist had just
made the first public test of his al
legged tuberculosis cure" in the pres
ence of a score of physicians.
Most of the physicians state that
they were not impressed with your
serum DIR. Friedman was told
DR.. Arthur Friedman answered for
his brother.
1--WE do not care what they say he
replied with nervous explosiveness. ITO
with themi In two months We'll
be treating hundreds of patients and
they'll be crawling around US begging
for our serum"
DR.. Frederick Franz friedman, de-
spite the chilly breezes, mopped his
forehead with a handkerchief and lis
tened while his brother continued:
This is a matter for medical ex-
perts. In a month Wen be treating
thousands. That's our answer.
Neither Friedman would say word
about the demonstration of the cure in
the tiny operating room of the little
hospital Most of the physicians, how
ever, who witnessed the injections of
open in their criticisms.
Most outspoken of these was DR.
Jules Broder, visiting physician at the
Peoples hospital.
This man is another Dr. Cook. He
should be driven from the country"
declared DR.. Broder. He is an abso- |
lutte fake. He knows nothing even of
the rudiments of medicine. He was
not able to inject properly.
DIR. Friedman treated only three |
And I1n
two hours to do this. OF the three
cases. Patients Landesman and Speigel (
are old men and the other. Miss Wer-
ger, is a buxom young woman. In all
three cases the clinical diagnosis was
in doubt.
Took No Precautions.
'.An of us noted that DR.. Friedman
brought his syringe wrapped up in a
piece of paper and took scarcely no
sterilizing precautions. His injections,
1 am convinced, We're faulty L don't
believe he knew where to find Vein-
His injections accordingly prooaply
went into the muscles and not the
VEIN
According to DR.. Broder. DR.. Fried
mann made d speech after the 1nJec-
tionS which was translated into Eng
fish by his brother, in which he stated
the serum would have no effect for
two or three weeks In eight or nine
months he said he would be able to
tell IF the patient needs another in
lection"
Think of that" exclaimed DR.. Bro
der He will be able to tell, not if
the patient is cured or on the way to
a cure but whether the patients needs
another injection. Think of the enor-
NOUS profits that can be rolled up by
treating thousands of patients within
the next few months"
Among those who witnessed the test
were DR.. Woods Hutchinson and E. W.
Kellogg, NJ. D., health commissioner OF
Milwaukee. Dr. kellogg made the fol-
lowing laconic comment to the wait
ing newspaper men:
Il had intended requesting DR..
Friedman to go to Milwaukee for the
purpose of further demonstrating his
theory. That is not my intention
now"
DR.. NJ. Landsman. visiting physician,
was the only medical man present to
come out strongly in defense of Dr.
Friedman.
DIR. Friedman was nervous wreck
today" said DIR. Landsman. THE
strain of the last few days of having
hundreds of tubercular persons hurry
ing to the city and the controversies
which have arisen over his discovery
have con. oletely unneryed him. Other
wise 1 am sure he would have not re-
fused any of today's cases. He has
assured me that he will be back short
ly to inject the serum in other pat
ients.''
DR.. Friedman in his new apart
mentS at the Hotel Ansonia was not
ready to announce his plans last night.
DR.. Friedman administered yester-
day his serum for tuberculosis to two I
women and man. the first patients he
has treated in America. The serum was .
injected at the Peoples hospital for
chronic tuberculosis the lower east
side in the presence of a number of physi- {
clans, including representatives of the +
a statement issued |
a se~noon. the health commissioner de-
clared the board had no desire to prevent
DIR. Friedman from giving a demonStra-
ton of his treatment but concerned .
only In seeing that the law was observed |
Twelve cases, ranging from incipiency
to advanced stages, had been selected tor | ,
the demonstration. but DIR. Friedman re-
1ected all of them on the ground that he :
was not familiar with their past history.
and picked out three himself. He acted I
under direction of hospital authorities