Using abnormal elevations in body temp erature as a tool
to treat disease. This was done in the past by deliberately raising the patient's
temperature to cause fever.
Fever therapy was pioneered by the Austrian neuropsychiatrist Julius Wagner von
Jauregg (1857-1940). He inoculated the malarial parasite into patients with dementia
paralytica, the third and final stage of syphilis when it affects the nervous system
and brain. The patients not surprisingly developed malaria with a high fever and
the fever halted the relentless course of the syphilis.
In 1927 Wagner von Jauregg received the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine
"for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment
of dementia paralytica."
Fever therapy is rarely, if ever, used nowadays. Sometimes, however, a patient
with a very high fever from an infection upon recovery from the infection enters
into a seemingly impossible remission from an unrelated disease or is even cured
of it! (This writer has cared for two such remarkable patients.)
Common Misspellings: fever therpy, feaver therapy, feaver therpy
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