Miami Valley Hospital School of Nursing - Lamp Yearbook (Dayton, OH)

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V. SIAIOCKNEY M. PETERSON F. BUROKER CABINET Department of Fever Therapy I-IYSICIANS will some day recognize fever as a friend rather than an enemy of mankind. These words were spoken about 1890 by Doctor William H. Welch, a renowned pathologist of the Johns Hopkins University. This day has come to pass. In 1918 Doctor Julius Wagner jauregg, a Viennese psychiatrist, announced that artificially induced fever, following malaria inoculation, was capable of overcoming the disastrous effects of that form of syphilis of the brain, commonly called general paralysis of the insane. Other investigators learned that the injection of the organisms causing rat bite and relapsing fever produced similar results. The use of heteroproteins, vaccines, and chemical substances, if a febrile response was induced, were also capable of producing beneficial results. It became more apparent that the simple production of fever was the important if not the only factor in accomplish- ingsimilar therapeutic results with such a wide variety of feverrproducing agencies. . The question arose as to whether a way could be found to produce the fever without the accompany- ing disease. This question aroused the interest of many investigators to develop a physical method of administering therapeutic fever. Doctor Clarence A. Neyman, of Chicago, satisfactorily produced fever with long wave diathermy. At the same time, Doctor Cash King, of Memphis, Tennessee, was conducting investigations with similar methods of inducing artificial fever. Hot baths, radiant heat cabinets, and various other devices became popular for fever production. . The work in this institution began in November, 1931. 'Prior to that time, Doctor Willis R. Whitney, director of research at General Electric Laboratories, had made the observation that men working around the short wave generators developed an elevation in body temperature. Doctor Whitney had carried out considerable studies in this field, particularly in the research work associated with Admiral Byrd's polar expeditions. Under the sponsorship of Doctor Charles F. Kettering, the project was Q 44 -to