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Wild. From the article: > Malaria had become a common treatment for syphilis between the 1920s and 1940s. This was because the Austrian scientist Julius Wagne
by x0x0 3y ago
Wild. From the article:
> Malaria had become a common treatment for syphilis between the 1920s and 1940s. This was because the Austrian scientist Julius Wagner-Jauregg had discovered ‘fever therapy’: that patients could be cleared of advanced syphilis if they experienced persistently high fevers, such as those caused by malaria.
We used malaria to treat syphilis.
- bink 3y agoAnd mercury as well.
- meepmorp 3y agoWe used to use mercury compounds to treat syphilis. Sometimes effectively, because mercury is a pretty good anti microbial and early stages of an infection start with skin sores that could be treated with topical applications. Once the infection got to later stages, though you'd need enough to cause mercury poisoning.