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1934 photograph shows Julius Wagner-Jauregg present at the transfusion of blood from a malaria patient to a patient who suffers from neurosyphilis, in order to trigger fever that will kill the spirochaetes. This approach, for which Wagner-Jauregg won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology, is a type of Pyrotherapy.

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The image was reproduced in Raju T (2006). "Hot brains: manipulating body heat to save the brain". Pediatrics. 117 (2): e320–1. doi:10.1542/peds.2005-1934. PMID 16452338. and can be found on the AAP's website at http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/cgi/content/full/117/2/e320/F1. The caption reads: "Injecting blood taken from a malaria patient (left, background) into the arm of a psychiatric patient (center). Julius Wagner-Jauregg (in black tie) is facing the camera. He looks on, standing behind the psychiatric patient. (Photograph from 1934, Institut für Gescjocjte der Medizin, Vienna, Austria.)" Presumably the Institut für Geschichte der Medizin (a department of the Medical University of Vienna) is intended.

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Julius Wagner-Jauregg

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To illustrate the technique for which Julius Wagner-Jauregg received his Nobel Prize.

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