A doctor intentionally gave his patients Malaria. For this he won the Nobel Prize. Learn why.

A doctor intentionally gave his patients Malaria. For this he won the Nobel Prize. Learn why.

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician, and Nazi supporter, that lived from March 7, 1857, until September 27, 1940.

Most of his work involved pyrotherapy, which was the treatment of mental diseases by intentionally giving his patients a fever. His tests usually didn't go very well.

It wasn't until 1917 that Julius Wagner tried introducing malaria parasites to give his patients high fevers.

He first used malaria to treat dementia paralytics which is caused by neurosyphilis!

After this initial test, malaria was intentionally given to patients as a treatment for syphilis because it gave the patients a very long, very high fever.

Intentionally giving people malaria to cure syphilis was considered an acceptable risk because certain forms of syphilis were fatal, and malaria could be treated with quinine, which was readily available at the time!

Julius Wagner-Jauregg would go on to win a Nobel Prize in 1927 for his Research.

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