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When Infection Was Prescribed as Treatment

When Infection Was Prescribed as Treatment

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Doctors once deliberately infected psychiatric patients with malaria as medical treatment.The resulting fevers were believed to interrupt mental illness. Temporary improvement was recorded as success. The practice was formalized, scaled, and ultimately rewarded.This is the history of malaria therapy—and how intentional infection became institutional medicine.

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