Pyrotherapy

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Pyrotherapy (artificial fever, therapeutic fever) is a method of treatment by raising body temperature. Many diseases were treated by this method in the first half of the 20th century.[1] One example is the treatment of syphilis by the introduction of malaria, for which Julius Wagner-Jauregg won Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1927.[2] The general paresis of the insane caused by neurosyphilis was effectively overcome by the method.[3] Pyrotherapy was also employed in psychiatry. Of note here is the use of sulfozinum and pyrogenal that was relatively widespread in Soviet psychiatry.

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Bibliography

  • Braslow, Joel T. (1997). Mental ills and bodily cures: Psychiatric treatment in the first half of the twentieth century. Berkeley: University of California Press. ISBN 0-520-20547-2. 


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  2. The Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine 1927, "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica" - NobelPrize.org
  3. Raju T (2006). "Hot brains: manipulating body heat to save the brain". Pediatrics. 117 (2): e320–1. doi:10.1542/peds.2005-1934. PMID 16452338.