malariotherapy

---

Episode 45: The French Disease at 500

21 Apr, 2019  in Podcasts  tagged epidemics / epidemiology / ethics / fracastoro / germ theory / history / live / malariotherapy / mercury / paracelsus / physiology / STI / syphilis / tony breu / vaccination by AdamRodman

  In 1495, a mysterious and deadly plague struck the city of Naples. Over the next 500 years, the medical attempts to understand and treat this new disease — syphilis — would mold and shape medicine in surprising ways. In this episode, Tony Breu and I will perform an historical […]

---

Episode 31: Malariotherapy

2 Feb, 2018  in Podcasts  tagged ethics / history / malaria / malariotherapy / nazi / nobel / psychiatry / syphilis by AdamRodman

Malariotherapy — infecting comatose syphilis patients with malaria to cure them of the disease — was once the cutting edge of medicine, and earned its inventor, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, the Nobel Prize in Medicine or Physiology in 1927. In this episode, we’re going to talk about the fascinating story behind this […]

---