FEVER THERAPY

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Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron (the knife) cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure are to be reckoned wholly incurable. This last of the hippocratic aphorisms might be taken as the source of the mandate accepted by some of the advocates of therapeutic hyperpyrexia, for it is their somewhat optimistic opinion that certain diseases which medicines or surgery cannot cure may be cured in the fires of fever therapy, and that those which are not cured thereby are at the moment incurable. Since the days of Hippocrates, fever has been a major concern of physicians, most of whom have looked on it as a defensive mechanism against disease. An altered regard for fever was initiated by Claude Bernard, Virchow and others, who demonstrated supposedly harmful physiologic and pathologic reactions thereto.1Thus began the era of antipyresis by medical and

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