38°-43°C (100°-108°F)
This treatment should only be conducted with medical supervision. With the exception of cancer, every indication here has gentler and equally effective integrated hydrotherapy alternatives.Dr. G.K. Abbott says, "Therapeutic fever is severe and unpleasant treatment. Sometimes dangerous symptoms may occur. Deaths from fever therapy are not common, but have occurred usually on account of loss of temperature control or circulatory collapse. A frequent troublesome, but not dangerous symptom is vomiting..." "The diseases in which fever therapy has been shown to be of definite value are Gonorrhea Syphilis Sydenham's chorea Asthma some Rheumatoid Arthritis Brucellosis."