TO TRY FRIEDMANN CURE.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1726, 18 April 1913, Page 4

TO TRY FRIEDMANN CURE.

PATIENT GOING TO BERLIN. (By 'Telosraph —Special Correspondent.) Wanganui, April IG. A Wangamii resident, suffering from consumption, has been in communication with Dr. Fi'iedmann respecting tho latter's treatment, and has arranged with tho German specialist to go to Berlin to he treated there. On tho matter being brought nndey public riotico by friends of the patient, tho piibli? wero,.quick to,,realise tlmt was a caso HoVohJy deserving of help oft 1 Its individual merits, but that it would confer a boon on tho Dominion at largo in that, for tho expenditure of a comparatively small-sum, itiWould.be prac-. tically'demonstrated whether tho cure ia likely to be efficacious; or not. While en» couraging other sufferers, if successful, ii; would savo them from tho expense and disappointment, if it proved otherwiseThere was, consequently, a steady re. sponso to an appeal for funds, this response taking the shapa of a benefit entertainmeut, and the necessary sum hail been raised and vested in a trustee. Tho latter has communicated with the Chief Health Officer on the matter, asking him to arrange that no difficulties be-put in tho way of the patient in regard to travelling ond landing at ports en route. Dr. Valintino lias replied recognising tho value of the venture as a demonstration for tho benefit of other New Zealand patients, and stating that if certain pro- . cautions aro taken, no difficulty will be put in tho way of tho patient's journey to Berlin,