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THE announcement of the successful application of any new method of treating tuberculosis must always arouse intense interest and create new hope among those who are suffering from, or waging war against, this disease. For the latest of these, devised by Prof. Friedmann, of Berlin, it appears to be claimed that it acts not only curatively in cases where tuberculosis has already commenced, but prophylactically where there exists a danger of infection to those not already tuberculous. A large number of cases have been treated in Berlin and Vienna, and it is said that where the disease is not far advanced it is cut short, and that in children as yet unaffected the tissues and organs have been protected against the invading tubercle bacillus. This therapeutic agent appears to be some form or preparation of a non-virulent tubercle bacillus or some bacillus nearly allied which has been deprived of its toxic constituents or products.
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Prof. Friedmann's Treatment of Tuberculosis . Nature 90, 412–413 (1912). https://doi.org/10.1038/090412a0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/090412a0