Wagner-Jauregg

Inspired by these observations, the Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg developed a method of deliberate infection of psychiatric patients with malaria to induce fever.

In 1927, the prize was given to Johannes Fibiger for discovering a worm that caused cancer and to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for malariatherapy.

An Austrian psychiatrist, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, won a Nobel Prize in 1927 for malariotherapy of neurosyphilis.

But as recently as the early 20th century, intentional infection was seen as cutting-edge: Austrian psychiatrist Julius Wagner-Jauregg won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for injecting blood from people with malaria into patients with neurosyphilis, which putatively cured them of insanity and paralysis.

His only mention of malaria is in relation to Nobel-prizewinning Austrian physician Julius Wagner-Jauregg's use of Plasmodium infection as an experimental antimicrobial agent to trigger the inflammation necessary to kill Treponema, the spirochaete that causes syphilis.