TESTING TURTLE SERUM.

Manawatu Times, Volume LXV, Issue 1902, 23 April 1913, Page 7

TESTING TURTLE SERUM.

FIRST EXPERIMENTS NOT SUCCESSFUL. CRITICISMS OF NEW YORK . MEDICAL EXPERTS. I (Daily Mail Correspondent). New York, March 11. Dr. Friedmann, the Berlin bacteriologist, whose claims in relation to his turtle serum treatment for consumption are filling many newspaper columns daily, continues to j encounter obstacle after obstacle. It i was not until evening that the j German specialist was permitted to ■ make his first public demonstration ' of the alleged cure. 1 The physicians present in the tiny operating theatre of the People's Hospital on Second Avenue were not convinced. Dr. Woods Hutchinson, the noted New York surgeon, says: "The cases were two'men, of about 40, with pulmonary tuberculosis, and a young woman with bone tuberculosis in the knee joint Both men were of the chronic fibrous type of disease, and the woman in resting stage. The syringes were of the type 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 lyDr. Friedmann was offered more modern syringes, but waived them impatiently aside. "When the vein was actually found and the needle thrust into it and the piston driven home, so loosely did it fit to the barrel of the syringe that not only a considerable part of the ejection but a ! deep tinge of blood from the vein i itself was in the barrel of the | svringe behind the piston when the ntedle was withdrawn. On Dr Friedmann's attention being called to t!iis lie said. 'All, that was not good. I not know what results I should get from that injection.' j Dr. Friedmann would be wise to ! get a competent hospital nurse to | administer his remedy for him." Dr. Jules Brocler was more outI spoken still. "This man is another i Dr. Cook." he exclaimed. "He ' seemed to know nothing of even the rudiments of medicine." 4 I The reporters swiftly told him | these criticisms, but Dr. Friedmann j declined to comment. His brother, Dr. Arthur Fried- ! matin, said: "In two months we will be treating huudreds of patients, and they will be crawling around us begging for our serum." His agent says Dr. Friedmann , was suffering from stage fright, but the newspapers are, blaming the Government officials for allowing the public mind to be filled with false hopes. I learn to-night that the Canadian Government lias offered Dr. Friedmann facilities for making tests before the leading physicians of Montreal next week.