Heres one for my #pwME #MECFS #LongCovid people. When confronted with the constructed image of Wessely as too decorated to be wrong, remember this guy...
"Malaria Therapy [was] the 20th century practice of deliberately injecting patients in asylums with malaria to induce
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"Malaria Therapy [was] the 20th century practice of deliberately injecting patients in asylums with malaria to induce
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fevers and convulsions which were believed to then cure the patient of madness. This therapy earned Dr Julius Wagner-Jauregg a Nobel Prize and this practice continued into the 1930's according to Stetfer and Watson 2016."
Extract from Sexy But Psycho by @DrJessTaylor
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Extract from Sexy But Psycho by @DrJessTaylor
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Confirmed it here: en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Wa…
So he literally won a Nobel prize for his cruelty (first time the prize for Medicine had ever gone to a Psychiatrist too) but his work was discredited & abandoned later.
#PACETrial wasn't even close to that lauded. We can do it.
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So he literally won a Nobel prize for his cruelty (first time the prize for Medicine had ever gone to a Psychiatrist too) but his work was discredited & abandoned later.
#PACETrial wasn't even close to that lauded. We can do it.
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The * is because my copy of this book is as an audiobook, and this wasn't a name I could be sure I had found the correct spelling for. So it's either that, or similar.
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