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The Best Possible Means of Benefiting the Incurable: Walter Bruetsch and the Malaria Treatment of Paresis

The Best Possible Means of Benefiting the Incurable: Walter Bruetsch and the Malaria Treatment of... The first effective treatment for a specific psychiatric disorder was not developed until the early 20th century. The promise of discovery of causes of and cures for specific diseases had come with the development of laboratory science, especially the study of infectious diseases, in the last half of the 19th century. The introduction of malaria treatment of paresis in the 1920s was a landmark in psychiatry and was possible because, in this particular disorder, the knowledge gained from the study of infectious disease could be applied to the treatment of a psychiatric disease that had resulted from an earlier infection. http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Annals of Clinical Psychiatry Springer Journals

The Best Possible Means of Benefiting the Incurable: Walter Bruetsch and the Malaria Treatment of Paresis

King, Lucy
Annals of Clinical Psychiatry , Volume 12 (4) – Oct 8, 2004
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Springer Journals
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Copyright © 2000 by American Academy of Clinical Psychiatrists
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Medicine & Public Health; Neurology; Psychiatry; Psychopharmacology
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1040-1237
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10.1023/A:1009014408793
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Abstract

The first effective treatment for a specific psychiatric disorder was not developed until the early 20th century. The promise of discovery of causes of and cures for specific diseases had come with the development of laboratory science, especially the study of infectious diseases, in the last half of the 19th century. The introduction of malaria treatment of paresis in the 1920s was a landmark in psychiatry and was possible because, in this particular disorder, the knowledge gained from the study of infectious disease could be applied to the treatment of a psychiatric disease that had resulted from an earlier infection.

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Annals of Clinical Psychiatry – Springer Journals

Published: Oct 8, 2004

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