fever therapy

American  

noun

Medicine/Medical.

1. therapy by means of an artificially induced fever.

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fever therapy British  

noun

1. a former method of treating disease by raising the body temperature Compare cryotherapy

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Etymology

Origin of fever therapy

First recorded in 1920–25

Example Sentences

Doctors have tried warm baths, short-wave treatment, artificial fever therapy and vaccination, but have achieved few cures.

From Time Magazine Archive

Only during the last decade, after engineers helped doctors control artificial fevers by means of electricity or hot air, has the art of fever therapy matured.

From Time Magazine Archive

With the holding of the First International Conference on Fever Therapy in Manhattan last week, a new medical art became of age.

From Time Magazine Archive