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Ueber die Einwirkung der Malaria auf die progressive Paralyse.

Psychiat.-neurol. Wschr., 20, 132-34, 251-55, 1918 – 1919.

In 1917 Wagner von Jauregg returned to the idea of the inoculation of paretics with malaria to induce pyrexia, first proposed by him in 1887 (Ueber die Einwirkung fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen, Jb. Psychiat., 7, 94-131). See Magda Whitrow, "Wagner-Jauregg and fever therapy," Medical History, 34 (1990) 294-310.

In 1927 Wagner von Jauregg was awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica."



Subjects: INFECTIOUS DISEASE › VECTOR-BORNE DISEASES › Mosquito-Borne Diseases › Malaria, NEUROLOGY › Paralysis, NOBEL PRIZES › Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine , THERAPEUTICS › Pyrotherapy
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