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Show oo TESTING THE NEW CURE FOR TUBERCULOSIS Dr. Friederic h h Friedmann of Berlin Ber-lin yesterday was granted permission by the county health authorities of ,w York county to test his treatment treat-ment of tuberculosis The American doctors are somewhat skeptical ami, like the Missourian, demand to be-show be-show n The American Journal of Surgery seems to think there are possibilities in the new discovery and says "Like most investigators who hd-sought hd-sought vaccines for bacterial infections, infec-tions, Frierimaiiu CQjne to the conviction convic-tion that the most potent curative and immunizing powers lie in the living bacterial organism Itself, and not in llio dead organism, as used in the method of Wright and his school. After Af-ter many years of observation and experiment. Friedmann finally obtain ed a stock of tubercle bacilli, which by repeated culture and passage through animals became entirely avlr-ulent avlr-ulent for the bumnn organism I'n-der I'n-der pressure, Friedmann admitted in the discussion that his bacfllus was derived from one of the cold-blooded animals, the turtle. After demonstrating by injection Into animals and even Into himseli that living vaccines were derived from this bacillus were entirely harmleB. he began to Inject these varHnca into patients afflicted with various forms ' of tuberculosis These Injections are repeated at Intervals of a few weeks, as many as half a dozen being some limes administered. "The remedy has now been used by Friedmann and his workers the past year or two In 1,18 cases of pulmonary pul-monary and surgical tuberculosis Friedmann offers no statistics. Rfl merely states that after one, two or more Injections, all cases of tuberculosis, tubercu-losis, except those far advanced, are completely cured As proof of his claims, he merely contented himself by presenting In the course of his ad dress a number of cured cases, the re cital of which is highly Impressive "It is only a short step from cure tc Immunization, and Friedmann has nl ready started on this problem on at extensive scale. He has thus far vac ciliated 836 children, ranginc from lh newly born to the age of three years Most of these chlldreu have tubercu lous surroundings and although som of the children were injected over s year ago. in not one has tuberculosis developed "Frledmann's address is naturally tinged by copious optimism and enthusiasm en-thusiasm and affords very" little opportunity op-portunity for a well balanced Judgment Judg-ment of his work That Is why we followed the discussion of his paper with perhaps greater Interest than his original thesis " |