The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913. A DELUSION.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXVII, Issue 9, 11 September 1913, Page 4

The Stratford Evening Post WITH WHICH IS INCORPORATED THE EGMONT SETTLER THURSDAY, SEPTEMBER 11, 1913. A DELUSION.

I hat the so-called Friedmann cure

for consumption proves to be quite a delusion is now practically certain. Some time ago the New York Board of Healer appointed Dr. C. H. Slade to investigate the turtle vaccine treat-! incut, and his repor t was so decidedly j adverse that the Board passed a j resolution forbidding the use of living j j bacterial organisms in the inoculation j jol human beings for the prevention j of peases, unless a full account of de-i tails of the composition of such serum I has been sent to the Board of Health, i and the latter has giv'en permission in writing. The resolution, which was aimed specifically at Dr. Friedmann’s alleged remedy,because he had opened ian institute for the treatment of tuberculosis by means of turtle vaccine, sets out that in the opinion of the Board, the use of living cultures of bacteria iu the innoculation of

human beings for the prevention or cure of disease may he fraught with serious danger to individuals and the public, and that while the necessity and the harmfulupss of such proceeding, could be safely determined only bv carefully-controlled scientific

measures and observations, certain tests of the efficiency and safety of an alleged cure of tuberculosis then being made in New York were being jrendered unsatisfactory, unscientific, and practically futile, through the insistence of the originator of the alleged remedy on conditions which involved inadequate observation, inaccurate methods of administration, and I ho insistence on secrecy regarding

the substances employed in some phases; of the treatment. The resolution went so far ns to state that “evi-

dence is already at hand to show that the so-called remedy not only does not fulfil the promises of efficiency and safety under which its use was

at first admitted in the city, hut on

the contrary, during its adnnnislra lion, many pticnts have suffered sen oils and unduly rapid progress of thoii disease. 11 • investigation in Britisl Columbia decided that the effective ness of the Friedmann treatment o tuberculosis lias not been sufficient!' well established to warrant the grant ing, without examination, to Dr Friedmann of a license to practi s< medicine in the district. Medica opinion, in Britain and on the Contin mit is entirely against the so-callet cure and it is now fairly evident tha Dr. Friedmann’s supposed wonderfn discovery is worthless.