Show test fever for mental cases success only partial in 16 trials doctor tells tails medical congress NEW YORK use of fever therapy in c combination om with insulin tor for the treatment of schizophrenia has produced partially successful results the american congress of physical medicine learned at its twenty fourth annual session here dr william A horowitz associate in psychiatry at columbia urd versify varsity described experiments with 18 10 patients as more or less disappointing he reported on the combined work of dr franz J kall kail m man an and dr lenore M kopeloff Kope loft I 1 also of columbia and himself heretofore the mental disorder has been treated with some success by introduction of 0 enough insulin to produce coma results of this method however according to dr horowitz have been neither complete nor permanent the addition of fever therapy with insulin has resulted he said in the first partially successful physical approach to the problem of schizophrenia use steam cabinet in the experiments the patients temperatures were raised to between and degrees after in alln sulin had been administered the fever was induced by enclosing the patient in a warm cabinet into which humid heat beat was introduced dr horowitz reported that five of the patients responded satisfactorily four our showed slight improvement and seven remained unimproved of the live 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 he concluded A doctor should be a good physicist to use effectively all the tools modern science is placing at his command dr francis 0 schmitt of the massachusetts institute of technology told the group neel need change in teaching H he asserted that the successful comprehension of physical matters required special aptitudes which in general are not possessed by the average pre med student the difficulty lies not in the degree of 0 Int intelligent elligen ces but in aptitude preparation and what may be most important motivation he declared many of these difficulties difficult les may be reduced by a revision of the mode ot of presentation of the material 11 dr irving rehman assistant professor of anatomy at the university of southern california demonstrated a new technique in the analysis of functional muscles and the rate and type cyp 0 of f the human galt gait he reported on on an elaborate me mechanism c by which high speed xray X ray motion pictures could record muscle action and assist in the study of poll omye litts litls I 1 in the work now in progress he said he has taken photographs by synchronizing the camera to the xray X ray pulse at one exposure to each frame |