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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 50 million cycles per second, developed by radio tubes); electric blankets (heated by resistance coils); hot boxes (heated by electric radiators or light bulbs); Kettering's hypertherm (a fan blows hot, humid air upon the patient, who lies in an insulated box); inductotherm (developed by General Electric) produces...
...Fever therapists are waiting for some industrial physicist to build a tiny radio tube which will emit a wave eight-tenths of a meter (31.2 in.) long at a frequency of 320 million cycles per second. Such radiation would heat only the patient's blood and not affect flesh or bone...
...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 or affect the mind...
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 of inoculations of malaria germs. For this he received a Nobel Prize in 1927. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg is supposed to have caught the idea of malaria therapy from an Odessan named Rozenblum. Yet U. S. slave owners used to send their syphilitics to malarial swamps where, for some then...
Theory. Germs of the diseases which artificial fever benefits die in the high heat. But whether the heat kills them directly or whether the heat stimulates germicidal substances in the body is moot among doctors. In that fog they stand close to medieval predecessors who cured paresis by running threads, horse hairs or bristles (collectively called setons) under the scalp and under the skin of the chest. The setons, medieval theorists argued, caused a flow of "laudable pus" from the chest and head...