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Also saluted for their applications of artificial fever to cure disease were these pioneers: Charles M. Carpenter & Stafford L. Warren of Rochester, N. Y., Clarence Adolph Neymann & Stafford Lennox Osborne of Evanston, Ill., Leland Earl Hinsie & Joseph Rogers Blalock of Manhattan.
Artificial fever has cured cases of St. Vitus' dance, which developed after acute infection, in 16 days, whereas standard treatment used to require three months. Fever also benefits atrophic arthritis (but not hypertrophic, where the joints enlarge). Acute neuritic pains of rheumatism often cease after fever treatment. Asthma, when...
Methods. Artificial fever is created by: hot water baths (dangerous, because the patient may sweat too much); high frequency diathermy (patient lies between two electrodes connected to a 500,000 cycle-per-second high frequency current) ; Whitney's radiotherm (patient lies in a high frequency field of 20 to...
An artificial fever treatment takes up to ten hours. Until Dr. Simpson learned to give patients salty water to drink to replace the salt lost in sweat, many became delirious. Dr. Neymann, a psychiatrist, last week averred that artificial fever up to 107.5° F. does not injure the brain...
History. Only during the last decade, after engineers helped doctors control artificial fevers by means of electricity or hot air, has the art of fever therapy matured. Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means...