Ep 36 Shades of Syphilis
This Podcast Will Kill You
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Induced Fever Could Cure Neurosyphilis
At the turn of the twentieth century, a lot of developments for syphilis were taking place. Pyrotherapy was discovered as an alternative to mercury and arsenic base compounds. A psychiatrist in Austria experimented on humans without consent with different fever inducing compounds or pathagans. He drew blood from malaria infected soldiers and then injected that blood into his patients stop it. In 19 27 he became the first psychiatrist, and only one of three, i think, ever, to be awarded a nobe prize, for using malaria to treat neurosyphalis. This therapy will kill you, i don't know. Hence the killer cure.
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