When Malaria cured Syphilis and a Psychiatrist won the Nobel Prize.

A post from history Dr Wagner-Juaregg The doctor looked at his dying patient and said: “I’m going to infect you with malaria.” It won the doctor a Nobel Prize. Vienna, 1917. Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg stood in a psychiatric hospital ward surrounded by patients who were slowly losing their minds. They weren’t mentally ill—at least, they […]
