Show T Test est Fever forMental forMental for Mental Cases Success Only Partial in 16 Trials Doctor Tells Medical Congress NEW YORK Use Use of fever therapy therapy therapy ther ther- apy in combination with Insulin for forthe forthe forthe the treatment of schizophrenia has produced partially successful results results re reo the American Congress of Physical Medicine learned at its twenty-fourth twenty annual session here Dr William A. A Horowitz associate associate ate in psychiatry at Columbia unIversity university university uni unI- described experiments with 16 patients as more or less pointing He reported on the combined combined com com- work of Dr Franz J. J Kail- Kail man and Dr Lenore M. M also of Columbia and himself Heretofore the mental disorder has been treated with some success by introduction of enough insulin to produce coma Results of this method method meth meth- od however according to Dr Horowitz Horowitz Horowitz Horo Horo- witz have been neither complete nor permanent The addition of fever fever fe fe- fe ver therapy with insulin has resulted result result- ed he be said in the first partially successful suc suc- successful physical approach to the problem of schizophrenia Use Steam Cabinet In the experiments the patients patients' temperatures were raised to between between be be- tween and degrees after aUer insulin insulin insulin in in- sulin had been administered Th The fever was induced by enclosing the patient in a warm cabinet into which humid heat was introduced Dr Horowitz reported that five of the patients responded satisfactorily satisfactorily four showed slight improvement improve ment meat and seven remained proved Of the five who showed the best response only one has remained well to date We must continue to search for more certain and longer lasting methods be concluded A doctor should be a 3 good physicist physicist cist to use effectively all the tools modern science is placing at his command Dr Francis 0 O. O Schmitt of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology told the group Need Change In Teaching He asserted that the successful comprehension of physical matters required special aptitudes which in general are not possessed by the average premed pre student The difficulty lies not in the degree degree de de- de gree of but in aptitude preparation and what may be most important motivation he de de- Many of these difficulties may be reduced by a revision of the mode of presentation of the materi- materi nL aL aLDr Dr Irving Rehman assistant professor professor pro pro- fessor of anatomy at the University of Southern California demonstrated ed a new technique In the analysis of functional muscles and the rate and type of the human gait He reported reported re reo re- re ported on an elaborate mechanism by which speed high ray X-ray motion pictures could record muscle action and assist in the study of li litis In the work now in progress he- he he said he has taken photographs by synchronizing the camera to the ray X-ray pulse at one exposure to each frame |