The sun. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1833-1916, 1913-03-14
BELLEVUE DECIDES TO
LET FRIEDMAN IN
Will Treat Lung Cases There
Under Eye of Federal
Health Officers.
BETTER. PATIENTS SAY
But Lederle Hasn't Received
Hospital Reports Said to
Have Been Sent Him.

From various sources there came re-
ports yesterday that the patients treated
last week by Or. friedman for tuber-
culosis we're doing well. Their favor
able condition is not taken as proof Of
the efficacy Of the treatment. but as a
hopeful sign.
The medical board Of the Peoples
Hospital. where DR.. Friedman gave
his first treatment a week ago, met
night before last and examined two OF
the patients According to Dr. 1gnatz
NJ. Rottenberg. the head OF the board,
! these showed marked improvement. He
said that the night sweats had ceased.
and while that was not conclusive. II
was good sign, he thought.
DR.. Rottenberg said that u report of
| the examination was given to DR.. Simon
Tannenbaum of the Board of Health to
be given to Commissioner Lederle. DIR.
Tannenbaum denied last night that any
report had been given him or that he
was to make one TO DR.. Lederle. DR..
| Lederle himself said he knew nothing
| about II. and II there were such a re-
port he thought 1t was premature.
Some of the patients treated by DR..
friedman last Saturday at the Office of
DR.. George Mannheimer, Al West Fifty
| first street. think they have been
| helped. DR.. Friedman himself said 1t
would be three or four weeks before
any real progress was evident, and
other physicians put the time as longer.
Nevertheless, several Of the men and
women treated have been coming to
| the man who was responsible for their
meeting DR.. Friedman. to tell Of their
progress. They have told him that
within twenty -four hours after the
FrieJmann culture was put into their
system they felt new life" in their
veins. And yesterday. Ave days after
the treatment. one or two came to this
man TO say that they felt ''looser about
the chest and seemed to have gained
| in other ways.
Upon DIR. Friedmenn's return on
tomorrow or Sunday he will begin at
Bellevue Hospital to treat such lung
cases as are passed upon by himself ana
Drs. Anderson and Stimson of the
Federal Public Health Service. The
opening Of Bellevue was agreed to yes
terday after the executive committee of
the medical board received a formal
J request from the Government. The
patients will be under the supervision
Of the Federal doctors Just as are the bone
and Joint patients to whom DR.. Fried
mann administered his culture in Mount
Sinai Hospital last Sunday.
DR.. John Winters Brannan. president
OF tho board OF trustees Of Bellevue.
said yesterday that tho hospital will
1 .,,tI
good opportunity for the testing Of tho
culture. He added:
| mo physician can bring private pa
tients TO be lodged in the hospital for
| DR.. Friedmann's tests. The hospital
Is crowded with poor patients as 1t Is
and the subjects for DIR. Friedmanns s
tests will be taken from the patients
we already have in the hospital"
| DIR. Anderson will return to New
York to-day to prepare for these tests
| Arrangements we're also completed
yesterday for the treatment by Dr.
Friedman of thirty or forty cases OF
bone and Joint tuberculosis at the Hos
pital for Deformities and Joint Diseases.
at Madison avenue and 124th street.
The physicians at the head OF Mount
Sinai Hospital are wondering why more
people suffering from tuberculosis are
not presenting themselves TO be ex-
amined preparatory to receiving DR..
Friedmanns culture. In the three days
| following the announcement that DR..
Friedman would make tests at Mount
| Sinai only thirty cases have been pre-
sented.
Among the physicians who have come
10 New York to investigate the claims