THE WHITE PERIL.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LV, Issue 281, 19 April 1913, Page 5

THE WHITE PERIL.

FRIEDMANN'S CURE. 'iIIiEGED 'QUACK THEORY. By —Press Association —Copyright. -Sydney, April 18. Mr, Flowers, vice-president of the Couneil, states 'that he has received scores of letters asking why the Government has not obtained a supply of Dr. Friedmann's cure (for tuberculosis. The Government' has repeatedly asked Dr. Friedmann, and his only answer has been that he is not prepared to grant ' the request. Mr. Flowers added-: .■"I .don't think there is any hope of a cure so far as Dr. Friedmaim is concerned. I make this statement in the, interest of suffering humanity. It is cruel to ibuoy them ■up with what I call false hopes. People, 'by delaying, are perhaps making the cure impossible. I cannot mention names and the doctors won't talk, but we men in Sydney who have studied Germany 'know Dr. Friedmann. They tell me the ■story of the serum obtained from turtles 'is not new. It has been talked about : in .the leading' medical circles of Europe for several years, 5 and become to be al•jnost regarded as a joke, but a hideously cruel joke, if, as I say, there is nothing behind it but mere sensational talk:"

Mr. Flowers commented on Dr. Friedmann leaving Germany, the home of science, where he could have obtained plenty of encouragement, and going to America, the land of quacks.