Hyperpyrexia in treatment of ocular conditions due to syphilis
| Autor: | Walter S. Schachat, Harry C. Knight |
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| Rok vydání: | 2010 |
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medicine.medical_specialty
Fever medicine.medical_treatment Egg albumin Eye Gastroenterology Typhoid fever Eye Infections Bacterial Pepsin Antigen Internal medicine Medicine Normal Horse Serum Humans Syphilis Endophthalmitis biology business.industry Diathermy medicine.disease Ophthalmology Tissue extracts Immunology biology.protein business |
| Zdroj: | Archives of ophthalmology (Chicago, Ill. : 1929). 35 |
| Popis: | The induction of fever has been used by ophthalmologists in the treatment of various ocular conditions for many years. According to Cordes, 1 the usual methods of fever therapy applicable to ophthalmology include: Parenteral and intramuscular injections of foreign proteins Native proteins (milk) Caseins (Yatren-Casein, Caseosan, Alobintin, Perprotasin and Aolan) Egg albumin Protein split products (peptone-albumose, proteoses, pepsin) Tissue extracts (bovine uveal pigment) Serums (serums of Roux and Behring, Deutschmann's yeast serum, auto serum, normal horse serum and antitoxins) Vaccines—mainly typhoid Typhoid antigen Bacterial extracts (Coley's mixed toxins, Omnadin) Malarial therapy Physical means High frequency methods Diathermy Radiothermy (short wave) Inductothermy Kettering Hypertherm To these Castleden 2 would add the external production of heat (by hot water baths, steam baths and blanketing) and the use of drugs (such as injections of sulfur or tetrahydrobetanaphthylamine). The beneficial results observed clinically in response to properly controlled fever therapy have been attributed to |
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