The daily Gate City. [volume] (Keokuk, Iowa) 1855-1916, 1914-05-18
FRIEDMAN CURE
DECLARED WORTHLESS
After One Years Trial, 7uberculosis
Remedy 10 Said to be Of
No Value.

WASHINGTON, May 1s.-Dr. Fried
mann's vaccine. after year OF care
full experimentation, according to Dr..
George Mannheimer, Of New York.
has exhibited neither curative nor
preventive powers, and 1t cannot,
therefore, be recommended. DR.. Mann
.heimer made this statement today
at the sessions of the clinical section
OF the national association for the
study and prevention Of tuberculosis
lin annual convention here.
I'm March. 1879 said DR.. Mann
heimer, eighteen patients were treat
ed under my supervision. or these.
fifteen can be followed up. and OF that
number three are dead. The number
OF injections In these cases We're one,
two and four respectively. or the re-
naming twelve patients, ten 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 In
jections, according to the inventor.
The Other five patients were not re-
injected, either because they did not
see the improvement they had been
led to expect or because they had be
come worse and had lost confidence
In Friedmann AS to their present
condition, Ave of them are now un-
changed and FIVE are worse than
year ago. One patient who had four
injections, feels well and presents
signs of an arrested lung-process. but
he has not gained In weight and has
developed new tuberculosis 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 infiltrate OF the fourth Injection
broke down and discharged pus.
Where assesses resulted at the
site of the first injection, the vaccine
apparently produced no additional
harmful effect. The disease remain
ed uninfuenced Friedman neglect
ed to prevent abscess formation, al
though he claimed 70 know how. TIC
be very charitable, one might judge
from one single case. that decided
natural healing tendencies. aided by
common sense treatment, will not be
hindered by the remedy
In speaking on the subject, THE
Subsequent History OF Cases Dis
charged From tuberculosis Sanitoria,'
I DR.. Charles Bolduan, Of the New York
department of health. declared that
tuberculosis sanitorfa are useless and
constant preaching of fresh afr wasted
unless I'VE bend every effort to pro
vide suitable remunerative fresh all
employment for the tuberculosis
especially for those discharged as ar
rested cases from sanitoria." The
same argument was made by the Rev
Sidney Goldstein, Of New York. who
declared that unless arrested cases
are followed up" the work Is render
ed useless.
Two methods, By the use of which
surgery has proven of service in tht
treatment of tuberculosis, were re
ported upon by DR.. Edward Archibald
| of Montreal while modern methods
of Chronological. hygienic, and die
tetic treatment accomplish a great
deal. particularly in fncipien. tuber
!culosis,'' said DR.. Archibald, there re
main large number of cases with
more advanced disease for whom these
methods avail little. For certain
number Of such patients, especially
those in whom one lung ia the seat Of
serious Lucrative LESSONS while the
other lung remains practically sound