!!!Wagner-Jauregg, Julius

b. Wels (Upper Austria), March 7, 1857, 
d. Vienna, Sept. 27, 1940, psychologist, founder of fever therapy, 
Nobel Prize for Medicine in 1927. From 1889 University Professor of 
Psychiatry in Graz, 1893-1928 in Vienna, head of the psychiatric 
hospitals "Erste Wiener Psychiatrische Klinik" and, from 1902, "Zweite 
Wiener Psychiatrische Klinik", which joined in 1905 to form the 
"Klinik fuer Psychiatrie und Neuropathologie Am Steinhof". Discovered 
a temporary improvement in the conditions of incurable mental 
illnesses after the patients had suffered from diseases marked by 
fever. Research on this subject became his life work. 1887 published a 
paper on fever therapy. 1927 awarded the Nobel Prize for "the 
discovery of the therapeutic significance of malaria vaccine in the 
case of progressive paralysis". Since more efficient treatments with 
antibiotics were discovered soon after, his discovery was of only 
historical value after the 1940s.

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Another of his areas of research, however, the treatment of thyroid 
disfunctions (prophylaxis against goitre and cretinism with iodised 
salt), was of great socio-medical significance. Gained acclaim also 
for his theory of the hereditary character of illness, forensic 
psychiatry, the expansion of somatic symptomatology and the 
pathogenesis of many psychoses.

!Works
Ursprung und Funktion der beschleunigenden Herznerven, 1878; 
Ueber die Einwirkung fieberhafter Erkrankungen auf Psychosen, 1887; 
Beitraege zur Aetiologie und Pathologie des endemischen Kretinismus, 
1910; Myxoedem und Kretinismus, 1912; Lehrbuch der Organotherapie, 
1914 (with G. Bayer); Verhuetung und Behandlung progressiver Paralyse 
durch Impfmalaria, 1931; Mechanismus der Wirkung der Infektions- und 
Fiebertherapie, 1935; Ueber die menschliche Lebensdauer, 1941; 
Lebenserinnerungen, edited and expanded by L Schoenbauer and M. 
Jantsch, 1950.

!Literature
E. Lesky, Die Wr. Medizinische Schule im 19. Jahrhundert, 
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