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Show PATIENTS IMPROVING First to Receive Tuberculosis Tu-berculosis Treatment Now Much Relieved New York. Mar. 1.1 Tho first patients pa-tients in America to receive treatment lor tuberculosis from Dr Frederlcb Franz Frledmann of Berlin, already have begun to improve in health, according ac-cording to Wr. Max Landesman, managing man-aging director of the People's hospital hospi-tal where the Berlin physician demonstrated dem-onstrated his treatment last week Dr Landesman sal,j the pains In the patient's chests have been allajed greatly and their coughing nearly had stopped. He referred to the treatment treat-ment as remarkable Dr. FYIedmann left tonight for Canada Can-ada where he plans to give demonstrations demon-strations of his treatment. He probably prob-ably will administer his serum tomorrow to-morrow to patients under the aus-plce? aus-plce? of the Royal Edward institute in Montreal He will attend a tuberculosis tuber-culosis convention In Ottawa Wednesday Wed-nesday and Will demonstrate his vaccine vac-cine there He will treat inn patients at the King Edward Institute at Toronto Tor-onto Thursday-Gathering Thursday-Gathering More Patients. Meanwhile the government officials, offi-cials, who are Investigating the treatment treat-ment will gather more patients upon whom they will ask Dr Priedmann to I res t upon his return from Montreal. Surgeon-General nine of the public pub-lic health service announced todaj that Dr. John F Anderson, director of the hygienic labratory, who with Assistant Surgeon A M. Stlruson witnessed wit-nessed a clinic at Mount Slnal hospital hospi-tal in New York yesterday when Dr. F F Frledmann administered hl acclne to seven tuberculosis patients will not begin the government's test until h'a,, return to New York later In the week. Experts Watching Test. Dr "Anderson notified the surgeon general that Dr Frledmann had not yet given him details for tho culture of the vaccine, but that he expected to receive them when the latter returns re-turns from Montreal next Thursday. In the meantime Dr. Anderson and Dr Stimson will continue to observe patients treated by Dr. Frledmann. The surgeon general said today that the government would approach the test of the Friedmann vaccine with an open mind and that nothing would be made public regarding the experiments experi-ments until a most thorough test had been made. If the treatment Is found to be good, the public will be told so, If It Is found not to be good, tho public wIIJ be ?o informed. |