Profile of patients treated with malariotherapy in a psychiatric hospital in Porto Alegre, Brazil: a historical note
Trends psychiatry psychother. (Impr.); 36 (3), 2014
Introduction: Malariotherapy was a treatment to cure neurosyphilis developed in 1917 by Wagner-Jauregg, by
inoculating blood infected with malaria in patients with neurosyphilis. The patient had febrile episodes that often cured him of the syphilitic infection. This treatment won the Nobel Prize in Medic...