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Pyrotherapy (artificial fever) is a method of treatment by raising the body temperature or sustaining an elevated body temperature using a fever. In general, the body temperature was maintained at 41 °C (105 °F). [ 1 ]
It is a type of pyrotherapy (or pyretotherapy) by which high fever is induced to stop or eliminate symptoms of certain diseases. In malaria therapy, malarial parasites ( Plasmodium ) are specifically used to cause fever, and an elevated body temperature reduces the symptoms of or cure the diseases.
The main work pursued by Wagner-Jauregg throughout his life was related to the treatment of mental disease by inducing a fever, an approach known as pyrotherapy. In 1887 he investigated the effects of febrile diseases on psychoses, making use of the streptococci that cause erysipelas and tuberculin (the latter discovered in 1890 by Robert Koch).
Hyperthermia therapy (or hyperthermia, or thermotherapy) is a type of medical treatment in which body tissue is exposed to temperatures above body temperature, in the region of 40–45 °C (104–113 °F).
David Kershenobich Stalnikowitz was born on November 20, 1942, to Jacobo Kershenobich and Flora Stalnikowitz, both of Polish descent. [2] Although he was born in Mexico City, his family moved to Tampico, Tamaulipas, where he completed his basic and secondary education.
The Spanish Wikipedia (Spanish: Wikipedia en español) is the Spanish-language edition of Wikipedia, a free online encyclopedia. It has 2,006,065 articles. It has 2,006,065 articles. Started in May 2001, it reached 100,000 articles on 8 March 2006, and 1,000,000 articles on 16 May 2013.
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Malariotherapy, a type of pyrotherapy, was an attempt to treat syphilis by introducing malaria parasites into syphilis patients. The fevers induced by malaria killed the bacteria (Treponema pallidum) that causes syphilis. The treatment was widely studied and employed in the first half of the 20th century.