Malaria therapy, also called malaria inoculation or malariotherapy, was an archaic medical procedure that treated disease by deliberately infecting a patient with malaria parasites. It is a form of pyrotherapy, in which a high fever is induced to relieve or eliminate the symptoms of another illness; the induced malaria was later cured with antimalarial drugs, historically quinine. The method was developed in 1917 by the Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg to treat neurosyphilis, work for which he received the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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The malaria therapy is an archaic medical procedure of treating diseases using artificial injection of malaria parasites. It is a type of pyrotherapy by which high fever is induced to stop or eliminate symptoms of certain diseases. In malaria therapy, malarial parasites (Plasmodi
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The malaria therapy is an archaic medical procedure of treating diseases using artificial injection of malaria parasites.
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