THE FRIEDMANN CURE.

Manawatu Herald, Volume XXXV, Issue 1108, 12 June 1913, Page 2

THE FRIEDMANN CURE.

The refusal of Dr. Friedmann, who claims to have discovered a tuberculin cure for consumption, to send some of his cultures to the many Governments and medical men who have asked for them, was referred to by Mr E. L. Armitage in a lecture at Auckland on Monday night. According to the Herald, the lecturer said there was something to te said in defence of the position that Dr. Friedmann had taken up. The vaccine, which consisted ,of tubercle bacilli, it was pointed out, was alive, and the temptation to increase the quantity supplied by culturing it would probably prove to be irresistible. It was known by experience that the tubercle bacillus, like other disease organisms, changed its virulence, or power of disease, when it was cultured. . It would be quite possible to sub-culture this bacillus, harmless as it is, and produce a vaccine which would quickly kill anyone into whom it was injected. “By retaining the culture under his own control,” added the lecturer, “Dr. Friedmann has avoided the risk of being responsible for any regrettable incidents, but above all he has succeeded in creating a demand for bis personal services unparalleled medical history.”