Atlanta Georgian. [volume] (Atlanta, Ga.) 1912-1939, 1913-03-10
DR,FR|EDMANN| IS
AFR0ST, SCOTS
HUTCHINSON
CriticiSes Selection Of Cases
and Calls Technique of In
jeCting Serum BungIing.
BY DR.. WOODS HUTCHINSON.


NEW YORK, March 1O.-When [ re-
ceived an intimation that a test of the
friedman cure would be made at the
Peoples hospital and a limited number
of physicians be permitted to be pres
ent. my first feeling was one of relief
and satisfaction that at last the red
tape was to be cut. and our visitor
given an opportunity to show exactly
what was in his much heralded cure
and to demonstrate its powers by ac-
tual experiment.
A brief, straightforward and impair
tial narrative of the way in which he
embraced the opportunity will perhaps
enable the public to judge how he rose
to it and how far he fulfilled the high
expectations aroused by his coming.
obviously, no final conclusion or
judgment of any kind can be pro-
nounced, as this was only the first step
in test which it viii take probably
months to complete. in the form of def
mite results. either positive or negative
Selects From Twenty five.
In marked contrast to the crowds
which had oesieged the Waldorf, when
Dr. Friedman first reached the hos
pital about II o'clock there were only
three or four patients waiting. But
as he proceeded to examine them and
read their histories. others came pour
ing into the waiting room by twos and
threes, brought in by their physicians.
until some twenty or twenty five were
in attendance
! DR.. friedman spent about an hour
in going over these patients. and at the
end of this time dismissed as unsuited
for the trial of his remedy all but
three
This was a good deal of a disap-
pointment to the physicians who had
hoped to see the remedy tested upon as
wide a scale as possible and upon
cases in all stages of the disease. This
! disappointment was the keener be
cause the large majority of the cases
rejected We're either early or middle
stage cases, in which the disease was
steadily progressing, or patients in
advanced stages of the disease. whose
only hope of recovery would certainly
| be past unless something could be done
for them within a few weeks or months
None of them, however. was in any
sense in a desperate or immediate crit
zeal condition, and all but one of them
would have been regarded as fair cases
for hopeful open-air or sanitarium
I treatment
Two Men and Girl
The cases accepted by Dr. Fried
mann for treatment were two men of
about 80 or 40 years of age with pull
| monary tuberculosis. and a Young
woman with bone tuberculosis of the
knee joint. One of the male patients
had had the disease for five years and
lost six pounds in weight The other
had had it for four years and lost five
pounds Both of them had good color
and appetite, no noticeable cough-in
fact, were typical cases of the long
lived, chronic, so-caled tibrous type of
| the disease. which runs anywhere from
! five to fifteen years and then some
times heals up or comes to a standstiu.
As both of them, under reasonable
care, might be expected to live at least
three to five years and make several
temporary gains in the meantime. one
of them had gained five pounds under
| the open-air treatment only few
months before
OF course, no reasonable man would
| have expected DR., Friedman to cure
any large per cent of the far-gone or
rapidly advancing early cases Yet in
view of the high claims made for his
remedy and the difficulty he has had in
getting an adequate field for trial it is
certainly matter for regret that he
seemed disinclined to take a sporting
| chance"
Syringes Work Badly.
| After the disappointment of the re-
jected ones had been somewhat soothed,
the selected cases were taken upstairs
to the operating room, and Dr. Fried
mann produced two small brown glass
wide-mouthed bottles. containing his
| famous vaccine. and two hypodermic
| syringes. The syringes were of the
| type generally uhed in this country ten
or fifteen years ago, but which have
now been generally abandoned on ac-
count of the difficulty In keeping them
| sterile.
The doctor had great dimculty in
getting the syringes to work properly. !
At last he succeeded in getting one Of
the syliuges to work passably, and then
announced that he was about to make
an intravenous injection-that is. to
thrust the needle into a superficial vein |
and inject the remedy directly into the |
blood. The girl, with bone tuberculosis |
who was his first patient was so fat
that the superficial veins were not |
readily visible.
After changing from one arm to an
other tying bandages around the arm |
to make the veins swell, and two UNI |
successful insertions of the needle. he |
finally put the case aside and said he
would 60 on to one of the other cases. |
He had consumed about As minutes i'm |