TESTING TURTLE SERUM.

Dominion, Volume 6, Issue 1731, 23 April 1913, Page 8

TESTING TURTLE SERUM.

- FIRST EXPERIMENTS NOT SUCCESSFUL. CRITICISMS OP NEW YORK MEDICAL EXPERTS. New York, April 7. Dr. iYiedmann, tho Berlin bacteriologist, whose claims in relation to lite turtle serum treatment for consumption aro filling many newspaper columns daily, continues to encounter obstaclo after obstacle. It was not' until last evening that the German specialist was permitted to mako his first public demonstration of the alleged oure. _ _ , fhe physicians present in tho tiny operating theatre of the Peoplo's Hospital on Second Avenue wero not convinced. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the noted New York' surgeon, says:—"Tlio cases wore two moil of about 40, with pulmonary tuberculosis, und a young woman with bone tuberculosis in tlio knee joint. Both men' wero of the chronic fibrous type of disease, and the woman in resting stage. Tho syringes wore of tho typo generally used here ten or fifteen years ago for the administration of morphine, but which have been generally abandoned on account of the difficulty of keeping them sterile. The piston had shrunk and refused to work properly. "Dr. Friedmaim was offered more modorn syringes, but waved them impatiently aside.

"When the vein was actually found and The needlo thrust into it, and the piston driven home, so loosely did it fit to tho barrel of the s.vringo lliat not only a considerable part of tho fiijcction but a deep tilign oi l blood from tho vein itself was in tho barrel of tho syringe behind the piston when tho needlo was withdrawn. On Dr. I'rlednmnn's attention being called to this, lie- said, 'All, that was not good. I do not know what results I should get from that injection.' Dr. Friedmann would be wise to get a competent uurro to administer his remedy for him."

Dr. Jules Broiler was moro outspoken still. "This man is another Dr. Cook," lie exclaimed. "Ho seemed to know nothing of even tho rudiments of medicine." The reporters swiftly told him these criticisms, but Dr. Friedmann declined to comment. His brother, Dr. Arthur t'riedmann, said"ln two months wo will bo treating hundreds of patients. and they will on crawling around us. begging for our serum." , , His agent says Dr. l'riedinaiui was suffering from stage fright, but tho newspapers are blaming the Government officials for allowing tire public mind to bo filled with false hopes. I learn to-night that the Canadian Government has offered Dr. Ericdmann facilities for making ti\4s before tho 'leading physicians of Montreal next week. "Daily News."

Mr. Albert Coates, an English conductor who has made a reputation at St. Petersburg, lias, according to tlio German press, been appointed to the conductorshii) of (lie Imperial Opera at Vienna, one of the most important musical posts in Europe. Mr. Coates's predecessors llerr Brunc Walter (now nl Munich), the late Clustav Mahler, and I'err Felix Weiugartncr (now at Boston, U.S.A.). Mr. Coates conducted nil one occasion a few years ago at Queen's Hall.