Died 1940-09-27.
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Julius Wagner-Jauregg
Julius Wagner-Jauregg was an Austrian physician who won the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine in 1927, and is the first psychiatrist to have done so. His Nobel award was "for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica".
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science · Austrian physician and nobelist (1857–1940) · physician · neurologist · psychiatrist · university teacher · also Julius Wagner-Jauregg, Wagner-Jauregg
Born 7 March 1857 · Died 27 September 1940 · Q78479
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1940· 1 entry
1935· 2 entries
Was awarded the Cameron Prize for Therapeutics of the University of Edinburgh
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While a member of the Austrian Anthropological Society
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1928· 1 entry
Wagner-Jauregg retired from his post but remained active and in good health until his death on 27 September 1940
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1927· 4 entries
The Treatment of Dementia Paralytica by Malaria Inoculation
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Awarded the Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine — for his discovery of the therapeutic value of malaria inoculation in the treatment of dementia paralytica.
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Awarded Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine (1927).
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And is the first psychiatrist to have done so
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1917· 1 entry
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, at that time a terminal disease
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1902· 1 entry
Wagner-Jauregg moved to the psychiatric clinic at the General Hospital and in 1911 he returned to his former post
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1893· 1 entry
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
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1889· 1 entry
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
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1887· 1 entry
Investigated the effects of febrile diseases on psychoses, making use of the streptococci that cause erysipelas and tuberculin (the latter discovered in 1890 by Robert Koch)
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1880· 1 entry
With the thesis "L'origine et la fonction du cœur accéléré
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1857· 1 entry
Born 1857-03-07.
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