WAGNER-JAUREGG, JULIUS


Meaning of WAGNER-JAUREGG, JULIUS in English

orig. Julius Wagner, knight von Jauregg

born March 7, 1857, Wels, Austria

died Sept. 27, 1940, Vienna

Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist.

Knowing that malaria could be controlled with quinine and having observed that patients with some nervous disorders improved after infections with fever, he induced malaria to treat syphilis patients who had central nervous system disorders. For thus controlling an incurable fatal disease, he was awarded a 1927 Nobel Prize. Though antibiotics replaced this treatment for syphilis, it led to the development of fever therapy.

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