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Cooling Garment for Multiple Sclerosis, 1983

Dusan Stefoski, MD, assistant professor of neurological sciences, Rush University, and principal clinical coordinator of project, Rush Multiple Sclerosis Center (left) and Floyd A. Davis, MD, Robert C. Borwell professor of neurology, Rush University, and acting director of the Rush Multiple Sclerosis Center (right) fit a patient with an experimental cooling garment.

 

The cooling garment pictured was designed by NASA and used to screen a patient’s temperature sensitivity.

 

Dr. Davis found that some multiple sclerosis patients benefited from exposure to cool temperatures.

 

From Rush publication, "The Magazine," Fall 1983. Online here:

archive.org/details/magazinerushpres1983rush/page/18/mode...

 

For more information, contact the Rush University Medical Center Archives: rushu.libguides.com/rusharchives

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Uploaded on August 9, 2011
Taken sometime in 1983