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Show uu FRI EDM ANN SERUM DEATH TO ANIMALS Washington. March 16. Surgeon General Rupert Blue of the public health and marine hospital service today announced that the attitude of I the government toward Dr W F. Friedmann and his tuberculosis remedy rem-edy depended upon the result of a con ference to be held with the r.ernun physician In New York tomorrow. Dr. Blue said: "The government is not prepared to say positively that it will refuse to co-operate further in the tests being made with Dr Friedmann s tubercu-losls tubercu-losls serum. We are at the same time averse to the proceeding with out full knowledge of the remedy. "Dr. Friedmann himself admits that his serum Injected into monkeys, guinea pigs and rabbits produces tuberculosis tu-berculosis and death. He declares that it has an opposite effect on human hu-man beings. This Is something new in medical science All serums of this kind now known to the profession have Identical effects on animals and humane, "Tho cultures that were recently given us by Dr. Enedmann for laboratory labora-tory test are worthless without full knowledge of how these cultures are produced and such other information as Dr Friedmann conld probably ghc-us. ghc-us. "The government is Interested only In determining whether or no( 1 Friedmann's remedy la harmless c owe this to the public If his serum, as Dr Friedmann admits, acts as a virulent Infecting agent on smaller animals we want assurance that it will not have a similar effect on hn man beings. ' Before continuing with Dr. Friedmann Fried-mann In his experiments. Dr Ander son, my associate, will request the German practitioner to furnish the department de-partment with all the information ho has I cannot s.n now that this will be a demand, although I am of the opinion it should be. Dr Anderson also takes this position " |