Hippocrates, the father of medicine, said, "Give me fever and I can cure any disease." Chronic infectious diseases, such as Lyme Disease, and conditions such as cancer often develop in people who, through systemic weakness, are incapable of developing a fever and mounting a proper immune response. This therapy induces fever in the individual through the prolonged application of steam. The patient sits in a steam cabinet, with the head exposed so that the cooling air in the room is breathed in as the body is heated. At the doctor's discretion, ozone can be pumped into the cabinet. The heat "opens" the skin to allow the ozone to penetrate. The ozone brings additional oxygen to the circulation, which energizes cells and tissues. It also delivers oxygen to the immune system, which converts it to hydrogen peroxide to change normalcy to abnormal cells.