Claimed Cure for Tuberculosis
By Editor
A despatch from Berlin, November 8, declares that Dr. F. F. Friedmann announces the discovery of what he believes to be a practical cure for every form of tuberculosis. He exhibited cured patients before the Berlin medical society, and declared that he had treated 682 cases, with invariable improvement in each. He injects living tubercle bacilli which have been rendered benevolent. It would be a blessed thing if some means could be found of rendering all these malevolent germs benevolent. We anticipate, however, that physicians will take such reports with great reserve. About the same thing was announced when Koch discovered his serum. Tuberculosis can be cured, but somehow these marvelous cures have not, in the language of the street, "made good."