FRIEDMANN'S SERUM.

Auckland Star, Volume XLIV, Issue 92, 18 April 1913, Page 5

FRIEDMANN'S SERUM.

IS IT A FAILURE ? "A HIDEOUSLY CRUEL JOKE." (Received 11.15 a.m.) SYDNEY, this day. Mr. F. Flowers. Vice-Preeident of the Executive Copncil, states that he has received scores of letters asking why the Government has not obtained a supply of 'Dr. Friedmann's cure. He says that the Government has repeatedly asked Dr. Friedmann, and his only answer was that he was not pre-

He says that the Government has repeatedly asked Dr. Friedmann, and his only answer was that he was not prepared to grant the request. Mr Flowers added: "'I don't think that there is any hope of a cure so far ns Dr. Friedmann i" 8 concerned. I make this statement in the interests of suffering humanity. It in cruel to buoy them up with what I call false hopes. People by delaying are perhaps making it cure impossible. T cannot mention names, j#id doctors won't talk, but we have men in Sydney who have studied in Germany and who know Dr. Friedmann. They tell mc that the story of scrum obtained from turtles is not new. it was talked about in leading medical circles in Europe for several years, and had become to be almost regarded as a joke, but it is a hideously cruel joke if. as I say, there is nothing behind it but mere sensational talk/

He commented on Dr. Friedmann leaving Germany, the home of science, where he could obtain plenty of encouragement, and going to America, the land of'quacks.. RIDICULED BY SCIENTISTS. "ADVERTISING AND BLUFF." MELBOURNE, April 0. The remarkable statements published in the English and American Press concerning Dr. Friedmaim's alleged discovery of a cure for consumption are not borne out by reports on the subject furnished by eminent medical authorities in Germany and England. When, the alleged cure was first announced Dr. Bull, Bacteriologist of Melbourne University, -wrote to Professor Hewlett, of the University of London, asking to be supplied with information end a quantity of Dr. Friedmann's turtle bacilli, the inoculation of which was said to effectually stamp out the tubercular germ from the human system. A reply was received from London on Monday, and Professor Hewlett has advised Dr. Bull not to proceed any further -with his request for supplies of the Friedmann bacilli. Accompanying the letter was a report received by' Messrs. A. and M. Zimmerman, the well-known London pharmacists, from their Berlin agents. This practically ridiculed the "cure," and went on to state that Dr. Friedmann had advertised that he had cured a man named Bier, but the latter promptly denied that he had received any permanent benefit from the treatment.

It was further stated that if there were in Germany a few of Dr. Friedmann's colleagues who really took him seriously, they had now proved that the whole thing was nothing else but "advertising and bluff." The report further stated that Dr. Friedmanh and Wβ invention would very likely disappear as quickly as they had appeared.