THE TREATMENT OF DEMENTIA PARALYTICA
- 3 January 1931
- journal article
- research article
- Published by American Medical Association (AMA) in JAMA
- Vol. 96 (1) , 7-13
- https://doi.org/10.1001/jama.1931.02720270009002
Abstract
In 1918 Wagner Von Jauregg1announced his treatment of dementia paralytica by inoculation with malaria. Since then numerous articles have appeared by various workers in the United States and abroad. The literature is voluminous but the consensus seems to be that about 33 per cent of the patients treated by this means go into a clinical remission. Other forms of fever treatment have been gradually introduced: noticeably, relapsing fever by Plaut and Steiner,2sodoku, or rat bite fever, by Solomon, Berk, Theiler and Clay3and the injection of foreign protein in the form of typhoid vaccine by Kunde, Hall and Gerty.4 The literature is filled with vast differences of opinion as to the action of these various forms of hyperpyrexia. Schamberg5has shown that rabbits inoculated with syphilis recover when treated by inducing artificial fever. Breutsch and Bahr,6on the other hand, believe thatKeywords
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