Word: hotbox
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They had found that the most effective way was a combination of penicillin shots and artificial fever treatment. Patients were put in a conventional "hotbox," their temperatures raised to 106°F. for three three-hour periods; they were given a total of 1,200,000 units of sodium penicillin during 7½ days. The treatment worked in 82.1% of the cases. When patients were given the same amount of penicillin in the same period, without fever treatment, results were only 70.4% effective. But the fever did not speed up the treatment. When patients were given the same amount...
...cylinder with a fan blowing dry air into it, past an outside battery of electric grids. The human guinea pig is wheeled in, reclining in a canvas chair and festooned with electric thermometers. The first experiments were rather cautious; then Taylor and his staff increased the temperature in the hotbox until it passed the boiling point of water (212° F). The victims came out uncooked and not permanently damaged...
...test was passed triumphantly by the professor himself. With hands, feet and neck specially protected, he was wheeled into the hotbox when its temperature stood at 230°. He stayed inside for 15½ minutes while the heat climbed to 262°. His face turned lobster-red when the hot air hit it, but that was about the only abnormal effect the heat had on the professor...
...secret of the body's resistance to heat is its own cooling system (perspiration). Moisture evaporating from the skin surrounds exposed parts of the body with an envelope of cooler air. With the hotbox at 236°, for instance, the air ¾ in. from the nose is 226°. The skin of the nose itself is at a safe 119.5°. Air drawn into the nostrils is cooled down so much that it does not damage the lungs. The general temperature of the body rises only a couple of degrees...
...hotbox alumni got as high marks as the professor; some vomited, suffered extreme fatigue and sensations of suffocation. The thing to worry about is the temperature of the blood moving toward the brain. Professor Taylor thinks this would give the best warning signal of approaching collapse under heat...