Abstract: A method of treating an illness caused by microbial infection includes administering a first high intensity focused electromagnetic field treatment to a patient whereby a first Herx reaction is induced in the patient; and administering a second high intensity focused electromagnetic field treatment to the patient after the first Herx reaction has subsided, whereby a second Herx reaction is induced in the patient and the second Herx reaction has a lower duration or intensity than the first Herx reaction. A method of treating an illness caused by microbial infection is also disclosed.

Abstract: A method for accurate, on site heat flow measurement through a substrate surface using surface mounted heat flow sensors and an apparatus for on site calibration of surface mounted heat flow sensors are presented. The method comprises mounting on the substrate surface a heat flow sensor which is calibrated to establish the relationship between heat flow through the surface and the resultant induced voltage in the sensor under the convective and radiative heat transfer environmental conditions of the surface, measuring the voltage output induced in the sensor by heat flow through the surface, and converting the voltage output to a quantitative heat flow on the basis of the calibration of the sensor. The apparatus of the invention permits the calibration of the sensors under convective and radiative heat transfer environmental conditions which substantially duplicate those of the experimental substrate.