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This historic image was captured in 1934, when Nobel-Prize winner, Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg, implemented a technique a known as pyrotherapy. The technique involves a pathogen, in this case the malarial parasite, which is extracted from one patient (background left), and injected into another patient with neurosyphilis, in order to produce a fever in the recipient, thereby, killing the pathogen that causes syphilis, Treponema pallidum. Wearing his black coat, Dr. Wagner-Jauregg can be seen in the background overseeing the procedure, as the malarial patient’s blood, having been extracted, was now being injected into the left upper arm of the seated syphilitic recipient.
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Content Provider(s): CDC/ Institut für Geschichte der Medizin, Vienna, Austria
Creation Date: 1934
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