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- noun medicine The
therapeutic use offever (high body temperature)
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From pyro- + therapy
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chained_bear commented on the word pyrotherapy
Seen in the Wikipedia article on syphilis: "Thus, for a brief time malaria was used as treatment for tertiary syphilis because it produced prolonged and high fevers (a form of pyrotherapy). This was considered an acceptable risk because the malaria could later be treated with quinine which was available at that time."
April 6, 2009