Nurse with fever cabinet? — 6/25/1938 — #15722_1
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Photograph Copyright Anderson & Middleton Company
United States — Washington (State) — Aberdeen
Aberdeen General Hospital
The fever cabinet was described in a 1947 article titled 'Fever Therapy in Venereal Diseases, Use of Air-conditioned Fever Cabinet.'
"In all the latest work, the necessary high and sustained temperature is achieved by the use of air-conditioned fever cabinets in which the temperature is raised and maintained either by circulating hot moist air, or by hot humid air plus induced electrical current. Use Fever Cabinet 3 hours daily at 105 degrees F for ten days, for neurosyphilis, chronic gonorrhoea." Another article notes that "Back in the old days, fever cabinets were used in the treatment of syphilis. Lined with rows of high wattage light bulbs, the treatment was utilized to elevate the patient's body temperature, intending to kill the virus and cure the syphilis."
