Julius Wagner-Jauregg. Portrait of Julius Wagner- Jauregg ((1857-1940),Austrian psychiatrist and neurologist. Wagner-Jauregg devised a new treatment for General Paralysis of the Insane (GPI) which was a common complication of advanced syphilis. From 1887 he had been aware that fevers caused remission for GPI sufferers. In 1917 he innoculated patients with tertian malaria,a disease which causes fevers,and many of them had extensive remissions. Malaria treatments for GPI were popular for some time and Wagner-Jauregg was awarded the Nobel Prize for physiology in 1927. In 1894 he had also suggested the use of iodine tablets to cure cretinism or hypothyroidism | |
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