Malaria therapy is the pyrotherapeutic treatment for neurosyphillis, where patients were intentionally infected with malaria as a means inducing a fever and treating their primary condition. Also known as malariotherapy, the practice was first described by Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who later won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work
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- Dax, E.C. (1947). Modern Mental Treatment: a handbook for nurses. London: Faber & Faber.
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