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Julius Wagner Ritter von Jauregg, after the abolition of titles of nobility in Austria in 1919
Julius Wagner-Jauregg, (
March 7,
1857 Wels,
Upper Austria –
September 27,
1940 Vienna) was an Austrian physician.
He studied
Medicine at the
University of Vienna from 1874 to 1880, where he also studied with
Salomon Stricker in the Institute of General and Experimental Pathology, obtaining his doctor's degree in 1880. From 1883 to 1887 he worked with
Maximilian Leidesdorf in the Psychiatric Clinic, although his original training wasn't in the pathology of the nervous system. In 1889 he succeeded the famous
Richard von Krafft-Ebing at the Neuro-Psychiatric Clinic of the
University of Graz, and started his research on
Goitre,
cretinism and
iodine. In 1893 he became Extraordinary Professor of Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases, and Director of the Clinic for Psychiatry and Nervous Diseases in
Vienna, as successor to
Theodor Meynert. Ten years later, in 1902, Wagner-Jauregg moved to the psychiatric clinic at the General Hospital and in 1911 he returned to his former post.
The main work pursued by Wagner-Jauregg throughout his life was related to the treatment of
mental disease by inducing a
fever. In 1887 he investigated the effects of febrile diseases on
psychoses, making use of
erisipela and
tuberculin (discovered in 1890 by
Robert Koch). Since these methods of treatment didn't work very well, he tried in 1917 the inoculation of
malaria parasites, which proved to be very successful in the case of dementia paralytica (also called
general paresis of the insane), caused by
neurosyphilis. This discovery earned him the
Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927. His main publication was a book titled
Verhütung und Behandlung der progressiven Paralyse durch Impfmalaria (Prevention and treatment of progressive paralysis by malaria inoculation) in the Memorial Volume of the Handbuch der experimentellen Therapie, (1931).
In 1928, Wagner-Jauregg retired from his post but remained in good health and active until his death on
September 27,
1940.
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