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Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 258, 22 March 1913, Page 1 (Supplement)

TURTLES TO CURE CONSUMPTION

DR. FRIEDMAXN'S CLAIMS. Dr. Friedrich Friedmann, of Berlin, wlki insists that lie lias discovered a radical remedy for tuberculosis, claims to have cured some six hundred persons who suffered from tuberculosis of the lungs or bones, and he announces his readiness to present similar sufferers throughout the world with the new cure. "No matter what the stage of the illness may he." says Dr. Friedmann, "T will give any patient one or two injections of my serum, and six weeks later he can qualify as a strenuous football player." Dr. Friedmann is a man in the late thirties—pale, youthful looking, and tall. He has worked on the tuberculosis problem for ten years, and has tried evenpossible device and remedy, never losing courage, ahvJiys hoping, learning, experimenting, always convinced that there was a remedy, and that it had to be discovered.

Tie says that be discovered it two years ago. He knew, however, that it would be criminal to announce his success before having tested it thoroughly. So. without telling anybody, he worked hard. He tried his serum, injected it into all patients who trusted him. "AMAZINGLY SIMPLE." A correspondent asked Dr. Friedmann 'in what his cure consisted. He said: "It is amazingly simple. 1 was greatly interested in the discoveries of Koch, but after the failure of his 'tuberculin' I followed Koch's theory'that tuberculosis could only be fought successfully with a ■sennil of living bacilli.

"T searched everywhere for that bacillus. and finally found it—in turtles. ] cultivate a germ in turtles, and then obtain a serum which T simply inject into tlie body of my. patients. This serum kills all tuberculous germs in the patient's body, and therefore has proved as successful for consumption of the lungs as for any other kind of consumption.''

What are you going to'do with this wonderful serum?

"1 will give it to all those who suffer." he said. . "1 have prepared enough scrum in the last two years' experiments and work to cure a million patients, and all those who will come and see me will he treated freely. 1 wish (o state that. 1 am unwilling for the time being to send the serum abroad, because T prefer explaining how it must he used to mv foreign colleagues. The serum can cure, but it can also hurt, if not administered properly. All doctors who visit me will he welcome, and T will he at their disposal : T feel sure that they will understand why I am so eavcful." Later in the day T went with l)r. Friedinann to the northern section of Berlin to see some of his cures. We first visited a little flat occupied by working people. A woman received us. and upon the doctor's request fetched in her little boy. a lad of eight, healthylooking and clear-skinned. Two years ago he suffered with tuberculosis. had continual fever, and could neither eat well, plav nor work. The mother heard of Dr. Friedmann. and induced him lo make an experiment on her son.

The result is wonderful: the bov is strong and can work for hours. Two weeks after the turtle serum was injected into his bndv the fever subsided: two or throe weeks Inter the night sweats disappeared. Then with perfeet regularity, the deep wounds tli.-it had formed themselves in his lungs healed, and his breathing became easier and regular. Tn that humble fiat T)r. Eriedmnnn is considered n= some mighty and mysterious power. . . OTHER CASKS. Wo saw oilier cases, all as convincing, all several years or months old. People in North and South America have hoard of "Dr. Friedmanti's cure through friends residing in Berlin, filorions financial proposals were made to the German scientist, should he feel inclined tn lest his serum on a distinguished and wealthy invalid in I ruguav. No limit was fixed for his fee. and his expenses would naturally be paid in advance, and rovallv. 100.

Other invitations of the siiiie kind reached Dr. Friedmami from the T nifed States, but he thinks his duty is to remain with his patients, and only atler the cure has become popular in iVrmanv will he feel free to travel about the world.

Tie has opened a small clini'iiic of his own. where doctors are iuviled with their patients. Some of the oatients came from remote provincial cities, attended bv their doctor, cither in ambulance carriage-, or Ivin'..' on stretchers. Dr. l r riedninnn examined tliein in turn, and injected his mysterious needle into •their flesh with these simple words. '•'Come back in three weeks." In three weeks, he says, they will be saved.