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...Miami Valley Hospital workers were Dr. Walter Malcolm Simpson (president of the American Society of Clinical Pathologists), Dr. Frederick Karl Kislig (syphilologist) and Edwin C. Sittler (one of Mr. Kettering's men). Paul de Kruif. writing bacteriologist, originally gave them the idea of using the radiotherm to treat syphilis. He thought the precisely regulated fevers it generates would be better than the malaria-induced fevers used by Nobel Laureate J. Wagner Jauregg...
...automatic disconnecter, set the whole device afire. No patient was in the hot box at the time. Within a week the group had complete new equipment, proceeded with more treatments. Last week another disaster occurred. As Dr. Simpson in Montreal prepared to read a report, his collaborator, Dr. Kislig, died in Dayton. Autopsy showed progressive heart failure following influenza. Dr. Simpson caught a train, left the paper for another to read. Radiotherm treatments at Dayton will continue...
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