Word: jauregg
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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History. Only during the last decade, after engineers helped doctors control artificial fevers by means of electricity or hot air, has the art of fever therapy matured. Impulse to this development was the success which Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna had in curing paretic Austrian soldiers by means of inoculations of malaria germs. For this he received a Nobel Prize in 1927. Dr. Wagner von Jauregg is supposed to have caught the idea of malaria therapy from an Odessan named Rozenblum. Yet U. S. slave owners used to send their syphilitics to malarial swamps where, for some then...
...baths, poultices, hot water bottles. The physiological basis for the body-heating vogue is the recently recognized fact that fever is the result of the body's effort to destroy disease. Hence fever should be judiciously encouraged and seldom, but never hysterically, fought. In 1917 Julius Wagner von Jauregg of Vienna, experimenting with artificial fevers induced by deliberately infecting patients with malaria, found that such artificial fevers brought about improvement and occasionally cures in the cases of people whose brains had been softened by syphilis. After malaria cured the syphilis. Professor Wagner von Jauregg cured the malaria with quinine...
...Whitney's radiotherm attracted the attention of General Motors' Mr. Kettering. Mr. Kettering, an inveterate tinker, took that first radiotherm to the Miami Valley Hospital at Dayton, where Dr. Simpson could experiment with it. It cured cases of syphilis (thus making Professor von Jauregg's troublesome malaria treatment obsolete), gonorrhea, rheumatism, colds and other ailments. But when the feverish patient broke into a sweat, the high frequency current tended to arc, thus burning his wet flesh. Mr. Kettering overcame that difficulty by fanning the patient dry with a blast of hot air from a new air conditioner...
...Edwin C. Sittler (one of Mr. Kettering's men). Paul de Kruif. writing bacteriologist, originally gave them the idea of using the radiotherm to treat syphilis. He thought the precisely regulated fevers it generates would be better than the malaria-induced fevers used by Nobel Laureate J. Wagner Jauregg...
Professor Sigmund Freud's 75th birthday last week was full of incident. The Vienna Medical Society, which derided his first exposition of psychoanalysis 45 years ago so brutally that the sensitive student vowed never again to enter its rooms, made him an honorary member. Professor Julius Wagner-Jauregg (Nobel Prize), long Freud's opponent, acclaimed him thus: "Recognition by enemies is worth more than any amount of applause from supporters." In Manhattan and other centres scholars assembled for Freud homage dinners. And one of his most successful acolytes, Dr. Fritz Wittels of Vienna and Manhattan, published Freud...