The Barre daily times. (Barre, Vt.) 1897-1959, 1914-05-09
FRIEDMAN CURE"
is CONDEMNED
DR.. George Mannheimer of New York
Says the Vaccine Exhibited "Neither
Curative Nor Preventive Powers" and,
Therefore, Couldn't Be Recommended

Washington, d. c., May 9.--In paper
entitled Subsequent Report of Patients
Who Received Injections of friedman
Vaccine Year Ago" DIR. George Mann
heimer of New York declared enphati-
cally before the clinical section OF the
National Association for the Study &
Prevention of Tuberculosis here yester-
day that the Friedman vaccine bad ex-
hibited neither curative nor preventive
powers" and that it could not, therefore,
be recommended.
'1n March, 1913" said DIR. Mannheim
eI, "lS patients were treated under my
supervision. OF these, Is can be fol-
lowed up, and of that number three are
dead. The number of injections in these
cases were one, two, four, respectively.
OF the remaining II patients, 10 received
one, and two received four injections.
Five of the ten patients who received
one injection developed assesses at the
site OF the injection and were therefore
unsuitable for further injections, accord
ing to the inventor The other five
patients were not reiniected, either be-
cause they did not see the improvement
they had been led TO expect or because
they had become worse and had lost con-
fidence in Friedman. As to their pres
emit condition, five of them are now un-
changed and five are worse than year
ago.
zone patient. who had four injections,
feels well and presents signs of an ar
rested lung process, but he has not
gained in weight and has developed a
new tuberculous process in another part
of the body. The second patient with
four injections has tuberculosis of the
knee Joint and is now decidedly worse
than before. The iniltrate of the fourth
injection broke down and discharged pus.
"Where assesses resulted at the site
of the first injection, the vaccine appar-
emily produced no additional harmful
effect. The disease remained uninflu-
eneed. friedman neglected to prevent
abscess formation, although he claimed
to know how. To be very charitable,
one might Judge from one single CO sc,
that decided natural healing tendencies,
aided by common sense treatment, will
not be hindered by the remedy When
in quiescent case the first subjective
and objective symptoms of a new out
break appear and one wishes to check it,
that purposes. 1t cannot prevent the
tendency to spread, if case is so dis
posed. The method of its administration
has been anything but careful and intel
ligent. For these reasons, and on ae-
count Of the absence of curative and
preventive powers in this series, it can
not be recommended"
Two Kinds of Operations Effective.
Two kinds of operations are proving
effective in the treatment of tuberculo-
sis, according to DIR. Edward Archibald
of Montreal, who read a paper on pull
monary surgery before the clinical Sec
ton of the national association.
The first method explained by DIR.
Archibald aims to produce collapse
of the affected lung through compress
sion, effected by introducing into the
chest cavity outside of the lung GER
tain amount of nitrogen gas. BY means
of this compression, the tuberculous
lung, being set at rest and prevented
from filling its natural function, is more
readily healed than it could be under
normal conditions.
The second method which he advo-
Gated was the removal of the ribs, or
portions of them, so that atmospheric
pressure may act upon the lung through
the soft yielding structure of the thorac-
ic muscles. or that the ribs may be al
lowed to fall in upon the lung beneath
and so exercise compression. In either
case the movements of breathing are
abolished, and the lung is put out of
function.
OF course. he said. such operations
were of value usually only in cases
where one lung was affected, the other
remaining practically sound He said
that the German and French physicians