PRESENT STATUS OF FEVER THERAPY
William Bierman, M.D. · 1948
This 1948 fever therapy research shows controlled energy exposure produces measurable biological effects in humans.
Plain English Summary
This 1948 medical review examined the therapeutic use of artificially induced fever (hyperthermia) to treat infections like gonorrhea and syphilis before antibiotics became widely available. The study assessed fever therapy's effectiveness compared to emerging treatments like penicillin and sulfonamides. This represents early medical research into controlled heat exposure for therapeutic purposes.
Why This Matters
While this 1948 study predates modern EMF research, it provides crucial historical context for understanding how controlled electromagnetic energy can affect human biology. Fever therapy used various methods to raise body temperature, some involving electromagnetic heating devices. The science demonstrates that controlled energy exposure can produce measurable biological responses - a principle that remains relevant as we study how modern EMF sources affect our health.
What this means for you is that the human body has always responded to energy-based interventions, whether therapeutic or inadvertent. The reality is that just as fever therapy could produce both beneficial and harmful effects depending on dose and duration, today's chronic low-level EMF exposures may similarly influence our biological systems in ways we're still discovering.
Finding
Combined with chemotherapy, it is valuable in the treatment of central nervous system syphilis, and by itself it is of value in the care of syphilitic infections of the eye.
In their words
“Combined with chemotherapy, it is valuable in the treatment of central nervous system syphilis, and by itself it is of value in the care of syphilitic infections of the eye.”
Exposure Information
Specific exposure levels were not quantified in this study.
Study Details
To review the status and applications of fever therapy in treating various infectious diseases including gonorrhea, syphilis, arthritis, bronchial asthma, and others.
Review of clinical and experimental studies on fever therapy including case reports, experimental an...
Fever therapy combined with chemotherapy was effective in treating drug-resistant gonorrhea, syphili...
The development of antibiotics has greatly reduced the necessity for the use of physically induced fever in the treatment of gonorrhea. Such fever still has a place in the treatment of drug-resistant infections. Combined with chemotherapy, it is valuable in the treatment of central nervous system syphilis, and by itself it is of value in the care of syphilitic infections of the eye. It is useful in the treatment of arthritis, brucellosis and Sydenham's chorea. It is claimed to be of value in the therapy of anterior poliomyelitis and malignant growths when combined with roentgen radiation. Demerol is said to be the best form of sedation during the administration of fever. Plasma vitamin A and carotene levels become depressed during the administration of physically induced fever. Elevation of body temperature has a delayed inhibitory influence upon spermatogenesis. In rabbits, fever causes a reduction of antibody titers and occasionally of the complement contained in the serum. It increases phagocytosis. It suppresses serum sensitivity in susceptible guinea pigs. Myelinated nerve fibers of the rabbit can be damaged by prelethal temperatures.
Show BibTeX
@article{present_status_of_fever_therapy_g5860,
author = {William Bierman and M.D.},
title = {PRESENT STATUS OF FEVER THERAPY},
year = {1948},
}