The times dispatch. [volume] (Richmond, Va.) 1903-1914, 1913-03-23
FR|EDMANN SHOWS
EXQUISITE SKILL
Holds Audience Spcllbound at
Point OF His Hypodcrmic
Needle.
MANY PATIENTS
Famous German Physician Con-
tinues Hospital Tests OF
tuberculosis Cure"
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New York, March 22,-Dr. Friedrich
Franz Friedanann TO o-day held $50 men
and women spellbound at the point OF
his hypodermic needle in the clinic
amphitheatre OF Bellevue Hospital
With exquisite skill that called forth
the highest praise of noted technicians s
present, the young German savanr
treated twenty-three patients selected
by the government for n further tost
of the turtle germ vaccine The pa
'tients ranged in age from a baby boy
two years old. upon whom DR.. Fried
mann accomplished an exceedingly
rare operation. TO men and women OF
two score years. Eighteen of the cases
We're pulmonary in the second and
third stages for the most part. and
five surgical. l. O.. tuberculosis OF the
bone. joint. knee or glands. Eight OF
the cases were girls and women.
Seven patients who were treated by
Or. Friedman at Bellevue last Mon
day walked into the clinical chamber
and publicly announced their condi-
ton. Another patient-almost dying
when he received the injection six
days ago-was wheeled in.
Condition of Patients.
The patients were questioned by Dr.
John Winters BraDnIn. OF bellevue
who after each had told of his cond'-
clinic in these words:
'''rhe condition OF the first injected
patients is practically unchanged. SiN
have gained from three quarters OF n
pound to four and one-half pounds I'm
weight. Dr. friedman looks for q,
change under subjective treatment.
The patients certainly feel no worse
Weight gains are not Indicative. We
count on a gain in weight here, due
O., ND Is, Il
With the previous patients out Of
the way, new patients We're wheeled
in, thighs and. in some cases. arms,
were barred. and DR.. F'riedmann began
injections. The first patient was a
ravcn-haired little girl OF fourteen
whose father had died OF tuberculosis.
She was in the second stage DR..
friedman made the Injection quickly
and patted her piGtails encouraging
ly when she was wheeled away
Children believe In Him.
Then followed a thirteen year old
girl In the third stage OF the disease
beautiful blonde-haired girl OF
twenty-five. and a little italian girl
with lupus OF the nose and tubercular
glands. Both the intravenous and in
tramuscular injections were given In
this case. She grimaced with pain
when the cloth bracer was tghtened
about her arm. but looked at Or.
Friedman with the confidence with
which children seem TO regard him.
DR.. friedman injected a tenth b1
a cubic centimetre in this childs ann
and one half OF IL &C. C." into her
thigh. After one incipient case had
been rejected at the suggestion of d..
Brannan. because examination had not
been made. three more girls and wo-
men were treated
The twelfth case was that OF a two
year-old baby boy upon whose right
cheek was a tubercular skin lesion.
There was also lupus on the right side
of the face. DR. Frfedmann examined
the baby and then announced that he
would Inject into the iuSular vein be-
cause OF the difficulty Of getting into
veins in the elbow. lie pattcd the
youngster on the cheek while ono of
his assistants held the little fellow
by his white stockinged heels so that
the large veins in the neck would
stand out more clearly Tie baby
moaned. ma NINA. maj nina" while hc
was receiving the injection.
The most interesting case OF the day
to Dr. JTriedmann, from medical
standpoint. was that OF q man who for
seven years has suffered from n terrible
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