Morton R S, Rashid S
Department of Medicine, University of Sheffield.
Genitourin Med. 1997 Jun;73(3):212-5. doi: 10.1136/sti.73.3.212.
Ancient societies had no rational understanding of fever. The Greeks were the first to recognise that it may be part of nature's method of effecting cure in some diseases. How best to assist nature went through many trials and errors. Appreciation of the prognostic value of fever and how it may be controlled was slow to appear. That there was a place in the therapeutic arsenal for induced fever came only with the 20th century. Finding a suitable, safe, and satisfactory means came slowly. The curative power of well controlled and reproducible levels of fever was proved by the arrest of one deadly and incurable complication of a sexually transmitted disease in the first half of this century. The purpose of this review is to promote discussion and, hopefully, well ordered laboratory and clinical trials aimed at learning whether or not induced fevers have a place in the care of patients with HIV/AIDS.
古代社会对发热没有理性的认识。希腊人是最先认识到发热可能是自然治愈某些疾病方式的一部分的。如何最好地辅助自然经历了许多反复试验。对发热预后价值及其控制方法的认识出现得很缓慢。直到20世纪，诱导发热才在治疗手段中占有一席之地。找到合适、安全且令人满意的方法进展缓慢。本世纪上半叶，一种性传播疾病的致命且无法治愈的并发症通过控制良好且可重复的发热水平得以遏制，从而证明了发热的治疗作用。本综述的目的是促进讨论，并有望推动有序的实验室和临床试验，以了解诱导发热在艾滋病患者护理中是否占有一席之地。
