FRIEDMANN'S CURE.

Stratford Evening Post, Volume XXXV, Issue 89, 22 April 1913, Page 7

FRIEDMANN'S CURE.

"ADVERTISING AND BLUFF.” The remarkable statements published in the English and American press concerning Dr. Friedman’s alleged discovery of a cure for consumption are’hot 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 and 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 has been received froln London, and Professor Hewlett has advised Dr. Bull not to proceed any further with his request for supplies of the Friedmann bacilli. Accompanying thq letter was a lepoft 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 bui “advertising and, bluff.” The report further stated that Dr. Friedmann and his invention would .very likely disappear as quickly as they had appeared.

Dr. Friedmann gave au interesting interview to a correspondent of the “Liberie,”' Paris, recently, in which ho explained both the nature of his cure and its source. Dr. Friedmann told the correspondent that ho fell practically certain he had found a specific cure for tuberculosis in all its forms. He added:—

“I have been searching for fifteen years, and if I now proclaim ray thorough certainty, knowing all \the hopes it will raise, I do so knowing well what I am saying. My remedy is extremely simple. Like all specialists, I followed the discoveries of Koch with close attention, but when it was proved that his tuberculin did not give thd desired results I determined to follow up Koch’s theory that tuberculosis could only be ' successfully fought by a serum made with living 'bacilli. “I Searched high and low for such bacilli, knd fbdnd them at last, though ■ you wobkld never' gifess where! It was .in sOa : tortoises, ' I cultivated a germ in: these" creatures, ''arid out of thei culture')Flobtained a*'serum which I i inject-,.'intd' my TheDfeerum rapidly!destroys ( allot« < berCiilo'iis r - , germ s iantdne lOigdhismjJ wwduthat^is-4vhy' it cures not only l pulmonary tuberculosis, but tuberculosis of the bone and all 3t]ier>i»hape6 toadthe •disease.-b’e.,,. , ~, Dr Friedmann went on to say that he would welcome any colleagues 1 bdionxcouW go todwramUd WOuht treat anybody who went to Berlin, and Aoirliing’io the poor. Beforergjeaving | for America, Dr. Friedmann left complete instructions with of his confreres. The London Standard’s correspohd-

snt determined personally to investigate the alleged cures, and had seen a dozen cases of children cured after eight ’rnonths’ treatment. He also saw an American, from Chicago, who when he caihVconld hardly walk from the lift to the room, whereas now, he said, “I never take the lift, out run up and down the four flights o. stairs without' difficulty, have the appetite of an ogre, and sleep like a child.” This man had only been a month under traeatment, and is not yet- quite, cured, but is full of hope. The* correspondent also spoke with many medical men, who told him that now whenever they had a case of tuberculosis they sent it at once to Dr. Friedmann. There are still many sceptics, but such authorities as Fritz Mayer, Rasfunkel, and Klemperer have confirmed Dr. Friedman’s claims before! the Medical Society of Berlin. Out of 1800 cases there has not been a single 'failure to effect a cure, according to the correspondent. Dr. Friedmann does not claim to restore the ( half-dead to life or to recreate dead tissues and organisms, but he 1 docs ' claim to cure all patients in the' first and second stages of' the disease, and of those who are past hope,' in 70 per cent, there is a notable prolongation of life and a radical suppression of suffering.