New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1913-04-21
FRIEDMAN PATIENTS
CHARGE UNFA|RNESS
Accuse Bellevue Doctors OF Mis-
representing Cases Treated
by Specialist.
DISSATISFIED WITH FOOD
Friedman Declares Their I'M
provement Is Due to Serum,
but Refuses to Enter
Into Controversy.

Disclaiming all responsibility for their
criticism. DR.. Friedrich Franz F'riedms mn
listened at the Ansonia yesterday while
two Disconnected consumptive patients
who had received injections of the turtle
germ vaccine commented unfavoraDly on
the action of the physicians III charge %
their cases at Bellevue. The hospital
physicians. they declared. had urea 10
make ii appear the Improvement they
felt was due to causes other than the
Friedman treatment.
The patients told OF a dispute that oc-
CURED i'm the hospital on Friday Wheh
Or. Friedman made an examination oi
those whom he had treated with We"
To making second injections IN those VINO
had received the serum under federal SUI
pervision The patients said that the
Bellevue doctors made every eno't 10 IN
terfere with their statements.
1--WE are getting better" said one or the
patients. land all our improvement we leei
is due TO the Friedman treatment p"'
the Bellevue doctors try to make II appear
that our favorable symptoms are due 10
the care we receive i'm the hospital
1.-THE Doctors said patient No ], ana
not acdlaint themselves with our cohu'-
lions. and in every way they tried to mako
il appear that it was not pr Friedman
who was responsible. but the food and AR
al Bellevue. They tried 10 discredit D''
Friedman, and we want to say risht mere
that our Improvement is due entireV u
Or FrieGmann's treatment ana TO II"
other cause"
Both of the patients criticised the quar-
itv and quantity of food received AT beiie-
we. and said that they lived much better
before they entered the hospital They
also declared that they had protested AT
the hospital against the unfair me'houS
of the doctors.
After the two patients had told thef
story Or friedman said that he was un-
willing to enter into any controversy WIN
the physicians cooperating with the so'
eminent surgeons at Bellevue. but that ne
believed that the patients In question hao
been improved by his treatment
"AU ms Berlin patients at the Friedrich
Franz Friedman Tuberculosis Institute
improved in the same way said the uoc'
tor. and they came from all classes. lh'
same results followed IN ~" cases oil thos'
wbn were unable To obtain good food and
afr as did those in good circumstances.
Or. Harry Benjamin. VINO was brought
here by Dr. Fncdmarn from Berlin t'
assist him. made "a plea yesterday TOT
SUSPENSION OF Judgment as 10 the elec
of the turtle germ remedy.
II do not care" he said. TO give az
opinion concerning the changes when
/ have observed In the patients treated WIZ
/ Dr Friedmann's remedy. The time is 10
short 10 say anything Of medical value
and Tie anal results would perhaps con
Itradict my present statement There arr
sd many changes In tubercular patient!
! Ibai one must BE- vcry careful In decidini
which ones should bc attributed to th'
! treatment and which should not. In many
of thc surgical eases the objective IN
proyemcnt seems to me undeniable. Mann
patients with pulmonary tuberculosis DC
! clare that they feel better in their sub
jectiye symptoms"
| DR.. benjamin was at ono time though
10 be i'm possession OF the secret methods
of th. Friedman treatment This gre"
out ~ the fact a he explained recently
that ho knew. as many others did. tina
the method of producing the turtle germ
cultures is common knowledge. but IN
final preparatiou OF the fluid IS know
only to the turtle germ discoverer him
self and Or Schleich, OF Berlin.