The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-11-12
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Nyicut press agent posseSs'd
Do, ans profession iu this 't any other
country. appareut,, takes delight 300
CRYING @ told yoH so Gag DE report
of the United states pubic health
service. which after ions, thorough
and uudoabtsdIg .ou.lus.v" .nFcstisg-
ton ~uguuouueos tho Friedman trieste
mout for tuberculosis not oui, uu, o
a.urs 1ui 3D. positive danger to the
live. of patient, upou whom t 10
tried
"a srlsiy hoax ou me uu',Tt1nat"
nut ever hop,fll Douslmptlyr Is Che
way the Medical societys journal
CLOSES an article 100 one OF it's recent
newspaper qubucit, advance sheets
and ia course of which b. is pointed
that the Journal cot the American
Medical society warned the public
against the Friedman cure when
ia FIRST came forward bringing hop"
10 thousands. OF tue hopeless
The Friedman cure was % fake
nr more fairly. % failure. % was
feared oy % large majority of p"opl'
including Iaymcn that 10 would prove
"a failure The common sense of the
universe ig noe .cutTatcd In ih"
Journal of mo American Medical s0-
.icty. or boo the profession 30 press
agents and about uluet,-uiDo out ~
every one hundred Americans WIN
thought about the Friedmaru "a
90 al proposed iu have it watched
and .r.Dstigatod rcforc accepting lf
Rut the apparent difference between
ne mass of laymen and the sentiment
seemingly evidenced by the journal
is thai the laymeu OF tnis country
watched the cure with leryent hope
hat 10 might prove what was claimed
for IL ana Not % fake as has been
the case while on the other sid, the
feeling seemed and now seems lp be
ape of Icer.ng satisfaction that % spe
riIc for tuberculosis has not been
found
ln the name or pits. would 10 not
nc worth The sacrifice of many lives
ana many hopes would not % thou-
sand dIsaproiutmeut- not ue we'll suf-
Tered. If 10 tine opd some one ul the
many .lrrs for tuberculosis cons
stantg being brought forward should
prove O. real cure
o. uls we'll that the United S'Htcs
public heJIth service came forward
and Insisted upon lu Official nyrst'-
cation Of the friedman treatment
before permitting The puul. p" re
exploited That is what Jno puuH'
health service is .oF--to Irptr., th'
public from fakes The people eN-
ueoted just the kind ol au invest sd-
ton that has been made The TACT
that has proven the Friedmann
cure uo cure however s no oalre
rnr rejoicing lr is. rather. calso
H'l NLNNf' NfN INh. Af" .H'N'.' W.
each successive ",urr' tukos just VI
riore hope from the "eysr hlpefll
-,onsumpJIye and those to whom his
life is precious. Yet his would Hr %
sad case indeed is aH hope We're
abandoned and we gave ur me effort
tu Ilud the cure the srE.IIs for
tuberculosis whicn somewhere MUST
exist ana which q majority of lay
men vino thins on the urje.t fr"l
with fnc supreme mith col ths .hi.d
that science sooner af later wllI md
Tho ~Friedmanu treatment .s not
the only fake cure for lIHcr. u'p-is
which has been brought out Boa rnis
country Wisely enough. because OF
les exploitation, the Friedman treat
ueut was subjected to most rigid
scrutiny by the public nealth ser,
ice This scrutiny might well have
been extended to dozens. yes hum
dreds of other cures" which have
been advertised ana practiccd Dy
regularly licensed members OF the
profession the Journal OF tine Amer
icap Medical Society 30 ably repre-
SCENTS. and which hay gone uuinyes-
tgated and -Lnpunished. The pow
ers OF the United states public health
service. and also lts duties az regards
cures for this and other human
Ills. might well be vastly extended.
The publE needs protection. The
cure that is a fake" should be ex-
ploded But let us not axe satisfae-
tion in tine failure 81 a remedy for
tuberculosis Let ms rather weep.