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Show oo THE MERITS OF THE FRIEOMANN SERUM Dr Friedcrich Frledmann has brouclit renewed hope to thousands of consumptives in this country He operated on fourteen patients in New-York New-York on Thursday last and all of those Inoculated with the new serum are reported re-ported improving. The doctors of New York have discredited dis-credited (he German phyBlcian declaring de-claring that at the clinic in which he operated on his first three patients. Dr Friedmpnn was not skillful in the use of his Instruments nor careful in the matter of asepsis. While that is not proof of the lark of merit of the ' discovery, still It tends to point to the German as without high ability in his profession and perhaps nothing more than a pretender But the real test Is In the actual treatment of those afflicted with tuberculosis If cures are effected, no one will stop to ask as to the degree of skill Dr. Fried mann is capable of exhibiting in handling a hypodermic needlo or a saw. but all will hail him as one ot the greatest benefactors of the human race |