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...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...
...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...
Donna Grazia Deledda, Italian authoress of Sardinian tales, received the 1927 literature award. Medical diplomas for 1926 and 1927 went respectively to Dr. Johannes Fibiger, Danish cancer expert; and to Dr. Julius Wagner von Jauregg, Viennese professor of medicine. Finally the 1927 physics award was shared by two scholarly investigators of electrophysics: Professors Arthur Holly Compton (U.S.) and Charles T. R. Wilson (Britain...
...doctor-professor is Julius Wagner von Jauregg, who last week received the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine for his malaria treatment of paresis...