Saturday, July 26, 2008

Did you know?


kanchanaburi 063, originally uploaded by Ou yang Youheng.

My word yes. The 1927 Nobel prize for Medicine went to Julius Wagner-Jauregg who was awarded for: "his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica"

basically he infected patients who had developed general paresis of the insane (as a complication of syphilis) with malarial parasites.

1927 ethics. sweet.

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