The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-01-25
New York Banker Ready
to Aid Fight Against
tuberculosis.
HOPES TO BRING
NEW SERUM HERE
If Offer Is Accepted, DR.. Fried.
mann Will Come to This Coun-
try and Attempt to Prove
That He Has Found
Way to Conquer White
Plague.
Especial to The Times-Dispatch.)

ESPECIAL to Ine Ilmee-Dispatcn.j
New York. January A-Charles r..
Finiay, president OF the Aetna Ma
tionai Bank, said to-day that he lie
ready to pay 81 ,ooo. 600 10 bring 10 Amer
lea the tuberculosis serum discovered by
DR.. r. r. friedman. OF Berlin. II IL
can BIO demonstrated in New YORK that
the treatment will cure ninety-hve out
OF hundred cases
To test the cure, Mr.. Finiay pro-
poees TO hire a sanatoriunl IN Ne" "i r
possibly the Old Polytechnic Hospital IN
Thirty-fourth Street. and treat iV
Tuberculosis patients free of charge.
The frat Of these patients will be mis-
sop-in-law Rex Lee Paris, Princeton
athiete of the class of 1905. who married
his daughter, Neva Esteile Finlay. and
subsequently developed tuberculosis.
Mr.. Finlay said that his interest In the
cure had it's origin in his consideration
for bis son-in-law.
Writes to DIR. Friedman.
About there weeks ago Mr.. Finisy
read of DR. Friedmann's success WIN
the serum and wrote 70 MIN ".
Friednann's brother. Dr.Arthur Fried
mann. OF Colorado Springs, took the
matter up with Mr. Finiay. ana to-day
there was q conference at the Aetna
Bank. at which DR.. LsuTeson Brown
Of Saranac, was present. Mr. F1niay
received a cablegrsm from Dr. frlen-
mann i'm Berlin saying that oner iooKed
more reasonable than any previousiy
received Mr.. Finlay expects TO get
q definite response from MIN "ithih
forty-eight hours
Mr. Finiay said that ne had onereo
70 nav DR.. Friedmsnn's expenses 10
this country and also the cost or ses'
on a hundred patients, which VIII
amount TO nearly &0UD-
II is his hope. he said. 10 discover
xbe.ber the serum is effective. and to
,hat and he intends to give patients
every possible auxiliary treatment ano
care. He intends to leave the selection
Of Datteuss to New York physicians,
and no charge will be made
He said that he had been told that
mr. Friedmanu has presented ms cure
10 The Imperial Board of Health OF
Germany and that the yiznte' 20 II fof
the British empire sPd Russia have
been sold for 81 -eaoe 90 eech.
we fn.end to make thorough test
Of this serum" Mr. Finley said
.,if. ninety-fixe OF the 100 patients arc
.area II will have been established
as cure II IS per cent OF them are
cured the public will be Informed. and
in the event of its failure that also VIII
be made known We intend TO test
the serum on tubercular cases IN tne
primary, secondary anu tNAfAn4 800
We will give il fair trial we want
to find out also whether the aftsr-effects
are inlurious-worse than the disease
itself.
Treat Poor Free.
IF the cure does prove eiIcacIous
we shall establish ssnatorium near
New York. and perhaps half dozen
throughout the country. The poor
Will be treated free.' and the wealthy
will pay us what they see TT ! cannot
saw whether the treatment will be made
public then, because DIT. Friedman
tells me that in the hands of bungler
il is as dangerous as a knife IN the
hands of maniac
mo one knows how earnestly
hope that DR.. Friedmann's cure viii
prove absolute. am not rich man
and 81. 600 90 will take practically all
have But I shall consider myself for
tunate to have had the opportunity
to help humanity. There are u. ooo. 0oo
people with tuberculosis in the United
States. and of these 10000 die year.
g 100 in New York alone. And the
majority of them are young men, II
IL a young mans disease- ] have great
faith in Dr. Friedman"