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Wagner-Jauregg therapy
Also known as:
Wagner-Jauregg treatment
Associated persons:
Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Description:
Treatment of general paresis in syphilitics by infecting the patients with malaria in order to induce fever.
Bibliography:
J. Wagner-Jauregg.
Über die Einwirkung fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen.
Jahrbuch für Psychiatrie und Nervenheilkunde, 1887, 7: 94-134.
Über die Einwirkung der Malaria auf progressive Paralyse.
Psychiatrish-neurologische Wochenschrift, 1918-1919, 20: 132-134 and 251-255.
Verhütung und Behandlung der progressiven Paralyse durch Impfmalaria.
Handbuch der experimentellen Therapie, supplementary volume, 1931.
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