Temple Fay

Temple Fay (Seattle , January 9, 1895 - March 7, 1963 ) was an American neurologist, professor and director of the department of neurosurgery at Temple University Medical School. He is a pioneer in therapeutic hypothermia, he was the inventor of the first human refrigeration device, on display at both the Smithsonian Museum and the British Museum.

According to Fay, body temperature was an important pathophysiological factor in some diseases such as cancer. Most of Fay's patients with end-stage disease showed positive results after refrigeration, mortality rates were low (the cooling method he implemented forms the basis of the methods we use today to induce hypothermia). He was also the father of the so-called "neurological reorganization", a method of rehabilitationwhich is based on the use of the same pathological reflexes to obtain the use of the desired function.