Julius Wagner-Jauregg

Julius Wagner-Jauregg was born on March 7th, 1857, in Wels, Austria. He was a psychiatrist. He created malariotherapy, a treatment that consisted of injecting Plasmodium vivax (one of the causes of malaria) directly into patients’ veins to produce fever, since treponemas are likely to die due to high fever. Thereafter, patients received quinine for treatment against malaria. He struggled for thirty years looking for a way to fight the insomnia caused by Schaudinn’s spirochete.

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