Medicine: Hot Box; Hot Bag

Although they do not know precisely how they accomplish their cures, doctors are finding such astounding success from pervading the sick body with high heat that a physiotherapeutic vogue is now under way. About 100 technical papers have already been published concerning the methods of instilling the heat and fully that many papers are ready for publication. In Detroit last week staff men of the Henry Ford Hospital told the Federation of American Societies for Experimental Biology about a hot box designed by Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson of Dayton and President Charles Franklin...

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