THE FRIEDMANN CURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1725, 16 April 1913, Page 7

THE FRIEDMANN CURE.

NOT THIS SUCCESS THAT IS DESIRED. | By Telegraph—Press Assnciotlon-Oopyrinht Sydney, April 15. Professor Anderson Stuart, M.D., I'ro'fessor of Physiology in the University of Sydney, speaking at a Hospital Board meeting, said: "I have it on tho highest authority that the Friedmami consumption euro is not tho success we would all tlesirc."

The announcement of Dr. Friedricti Jjricdmann s claim that ho had discovered a certain remedy for tuberculosis evoked tremendous interest, and tho Berlin doer tor was flooded with letters, telegrams, and cable messages. He is stated to havo received offers of hundreds of thousands of pounds within tho month if he would inject his "culture" into patients in many, and widely distant, pans of tho world. Since December last some five hundred patients have been treated by the doctor, and it is said that in no cuso has tho "cure" proved a failuro. At a mooting of tho Berlin Medical Society, when Dr. Friedmann told his colleagues about his experiments, several of tho leading doctors and of this country rose to confirm Dr. Friedmann's statements. But while nobody raised the slightest doubt about Dr. Friedmann's success, there lias been some .criticism about tho considerable delay to which the actual handing of tho remedy to practitioners in general has been subjeot. During a visit to New York in Febrhary last, Dr. Friedmann said:— "When I leave this country I do not intend to have it said that any person was tumble to try the_ Friedmann treatment because hix financial means did not permit. I intend to treat tuberculosis internally, as consumption, and also tho external forms, particularly as it slrtnvs itself in the kneo joints of children," Dr. A. C. H. Friedmann, of Colorado Springs, the visiting physician's brother, explained tlio treatment in tho following terms:— "It is the injection into the blood (introvenous) or into the muscular tissue, nr subcutancously, of an aviruleut (non-viru-dent) atoxic (non-poisonous) tuberculosis bacillus from the turtle. Before he injected any of this into his first patient ho injected it into himself three or lour times at varying intervals, no reaction resuiting with the exception of a little inllll.ration. There was no fever to speak of." Asked to throw some light on Hie reluctance of German physicians to accept Dr. Frederick Friedmann's claims, and reminded that his unwillingness to give details had .been said to br- the cause of this reluctance, Dr. Friedmann's brother replied: "The trouble in Germany was duo largely to tlio erroneous opinion of German physician- that a man with a sword in his hand could fight." This cryptic remark was explained as meaning that the present treatment was with a live bacillus and not with a dead extract .Mich us tuberculin, norm seiuni, such as Von Behring's diphtheria anti-toxin, nor a chemical, such as Ehrlich's neo-salvarsan.