Manual of Psychiatry and Mental Hygiene

52lTECAADA M~nci A part in therapeutics but there is certainly'gr6tt V'a'ue to be derived from its carefully appraised application.He points out that it is the afrebrile diseases or those with a minimum amount of low grade fever, which may be expected to benefit most from electropyrexia.The history of the development of the method is of great interest.It is followed by detailed chapters on the physiology of hyperpyrexia and then the technique of electropyrexia.The rest of the book describes its use in such diseases as syphilis, arthritis, gonorrhoea, and asthma, with a chapter on "other diseases" aThe book is of considerable value in Connection with the study and use of artificial fever in disease

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