Malariotherapy, also called malaria therapy or malaria inoculation, is an archaic medical procedure that treated disease by artificially injecting a patient with malaria parasites. It is a type of pyrotherapy, inducing a high fever to relieve or eliminate the symptoms of another condition; after the primary disease was treated, the induced malaria was then cured with antimalarial drugs, historically quinine. Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg developed the method in 1917 to treat neurosyphilis, receiving the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for the technique.
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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 method was developed by Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg in 1917 for the treatment of neurosyphilis for which he received the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine.
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