The evening herald. [volume] (Albuquerque, New Mexico) 1914-1922, 1914-11-11
GOVERNMENT PUTS
FRIEDMAN CURE
OUTSIDE PALE
Report Of Bureau of Public
Health Declares It Has
Been Definitely Determined
Cure Does Not Cure.

Washington. Nov. 1.-THE seal 81
official dis pproNal mas been placed
upon the tuberculosis cure brought
g. this county in 1913 bv Or Freder-
iok = Triedm ann ot Berlin. The am
nouncement was made los the
United States public health service boz
mailing an distract of Inc report of H.
Investigations Boo hospitals and labor
atorics where tests co. the Friedman
,ulturcv Ner, maze. n declares that
conclusions % the American physi-
clans are boz limo with previous reports
both in his country ana abroad
(which nave refuted Dr. friedmann
claim To- the discovery ~ o. specific
cure for tuberculosis
ouc.fourth ~ an eases treated un-
der the observation OF American ply
e.clans developed running sores 90 the
point 81 injection 81 the cure" the
abstract states. adding thnt DR. lied
mann admitted this a. he uR favorable
Goo ctlccting "a cure. but declared his
method Of injection had overcome that
obstacle. The report further states
that the bacteria germs used for mice
ton by Or Friedman show that the
perm Is different from varieties OF
tuuerclo bacilli Uommoul known at
o., present time and that their mice
tluu into smaller Itimuls rendered th"
subj sct more susceptible Goo Jubercul1r
infection instead o. more resistant. as
was cl5iWcd
40 specific cases ARE reported in tho
gls.ract mndr public nor is any men
utr made of br. Friedman + method
/ o. preparing his culture. Tho abstract
sgys in part
This remedy was so widely herald
ed by sensational newspaper notices
thar 10 Seems safe 90 say that Their
ouuld hardly bs "a person or aduit
years iu the country who did not hear
s"me'iur about u, or O victim of tu-
b~erculusls who did not experience "a
THRU Of hope 90 speedy n complete
cure The report naturally does not
deal with tho pItlful aud sordid details
of the scencs ensuing upon lr Fried
mnnn's advent 81 the crowds Of Tn
yalids. many Of them ~penniless, bat
fling FOR q chance to take tho treat
ment. Of the greedy exploitation ot
hopeless eases who happened 10 have
money and the turning away of those
who did not ~ report details mere
a. the medical observations made on
certain patients. the laboratory studies
ON the culture used by pr. Friedman.
and refers 90 the moral peculiarities
of the doctor only sufficiently To- make
h clear that Il al his own fault that
the investigation was not continued
longer and pom q greater number 'i
suitable cases.
IA Is pointed out that the manner
ia which Or Friedman presented his
claims before the Berlin Medical SOC
Ciety made them paramount Co "a con
|tcution that be had discovered az last
the sovereign cure TOR tuberculosis Boo
all it's form provided, OF course, that
the disease had not already progressed
beyond an hope 90 recovery. These
claims lhe report takes up in detail
and then draws the deadly parallel
between them and the results ui the
Application of the treatment 90 pa
lutpts under the observation Of the
Service doctors whereas. the claims
are based ON cases which always seem
60 get well. or IA least Ca show phe-
uomenal Improvement. after one or
two infections tho vases which reacted
Ia this manner among he test series
were conspiCuOus'y leN. The report
does not commit itself as Co whtethef
tho Improvement noted lea these few
eases was due Co the treatment. or to
the stimulus Of "a great hope, OF 60
u~nassiEnahle causes which work lm-
provement in some cases uf every largc
series but b. does point ont distinctly
that u anyone prefers b first sN-
lp"lanation he must In justice attribute
also 90 the treatment % very dif-
ltlnct ndunusuaidctero
ltiuct and unusual deterioration in the
condition nf certain other patients
which progressed la some Of them &C.
"a speedy cath"