Malaria therapy is the pyrotherapeutic treatment for neurosyphillis, where patients were intentionally infected with malaria as a means inducing a fever and treating their primary condition. Also known as malariotherapy, the practice was first described by Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg, who later won the Nobel Prize in Medicine for his work

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  • Dax, E.C. (1947). Modern Mental Treatment: a handbook for nurses. London: Faber & Faber. {{cite book}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)
  • Raju, T.N.K. (2006). "Hot Brains: Manipulating Body Heat to Save the Brain". Pediatrics. 117 (2): 320–321. {{cite journal}}: Cite has empty unknown parameter: |coauthors= (help)


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