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Wagner-Jauregg, Julius
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originally Julius Wagner, Ritter (Knight) von Jauregg
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pronunciation:
[vahgner yowrek]
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| Neurologist and psychiatrist, born in Wels, N Austria. He became professor at Vienna (1883–9) and Graz (1889–93), then returned to Vienna, where he directed the university hospital for nervous and mental diseases until 1928. He was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize for Physiology or Medicine for his discovery in 1917 of a treatment for general paralysis (a late complication of syphilis) by infection with malaria. The resulting fever relieved the symptoms, paving the way for other physical treatments of neurological and psychiatric disorders, including electroconvulsive shock therapy. |
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