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Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian psychiatrist who won the Nobel Prize for developing a controversial treatment for a severe mental illness by deliberately infecting patients with malaria to trigger fever. His work in the late 1800s and early 1900s marked an important moment in psychiatric medicine, though his methods would not be considered ethical by modern standards.
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- Born
- 1857
- Died
- 1940
- Works
- 6
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- Grund-Schema der Geisteskrankheiten
- Myxödem und kretinismus
- Josef Skoda, Theodor Meynert, Carl v. Rokitansky, Theodor Billroth, und die moderne Chirurgie
- Max Leidesdorf 1816-1889
- Fieber- und Infektionstherapie
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- Person
- Gender
- Male
- Origin
- Germany
- Active from
- 1813-05-22
- Active to
- 1883-02-13
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Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Wels, 7 maart 1857 – Wenen, 27 september 1940) was een Oostenrijks medicus en psychiater. In 1927 ontving hij de Nobelprijs voor de Geneeskunde voor zijn "malaria-therapie".
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