CONSUMPTION TREAMENT.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1639, 4 January 1913, Page 7

CONSUMPTION TREAMENT.

':■ SWEEPING CLAIM BY GERMAN ;;-'•• PHYSICIAN. ■■ ;If/Fricdrich il'rarA'i'rieilraann, a Berphysician, fins accomplished what he claims, he" has not only reached tho one goal that "Mas been the heart's desire- 1 of every bacteriologist, and physician since Bobert Kooh.'but'he has also gone beyond it to success hitherto -hardly-dreamed .of. 'Ho not. only "alleges (says ..the London "Observer")/that he* hair' discovered : a oure for tuberculosis in every form, but, furthermore; that inoculation with his •remedy confers .absolute inimunity.Uro.m tuberculosis.. ':-■'"■'■ ;' How long thin Immunity persists he admits. ho is unable to say.. But he points put in this corincction'that no physician is'ablo t'6'say'how long vaccination confers immunity against smallpox.' l>r. J'riedtuanu, who has been working for several years along these lines, has just announced the results of his research, and the revolutionary, nature- of his assertions appears likely to divide tho world's physicians 'into''two camps.' At tho.meeting "of [the Berlin Medical Society in NoVember '■ pi', l'riedmaiyri explained thoTomedy, and produced patients alleged to have been'cured by it. , " [.' vHc has, he declares; succeeded in'cultivating; tubercle-bacilli,- which, while retaining specific curative substances lons known"to-be-contained ;in these-bacilli (antigeno), aro absolutely free of toxins, and of disease-producing'elements. •■-■• ■ i In his report: to the Medical Society ho declared ho had treated CB2 tuborculosis 'patients, of whom more than 250 were suffering from: pqlinonary. tuberculosis. In almost every case there was; an immediate) "improvement, and in tho majority a complete cure: '••-.. '■■' Dr. Friedmann exhibited to tho Medical Socrety~patTehllr> v ho~wero cured' byfrom ■ one to three, injections of pulmonary, skin, bone, and!articular tuberculosis, and "lupus as "well tis scrofula.' He also "exhibited children; who, ho declared, wero the only members of tuberculous families irnaflYctofl by iho disease and had been protected by inhoculation.