Imagine getting a Nobel prize for infecting people with Malaria…

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• reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

  … does it cure syphilis though?

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  • Dookieman12@piefed.social ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    technically. ish.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pyrotherapy

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    • nialv7@lemmy.world ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      huh so it was used when syphilis was incurable. i guess it’s fair, since you are gonna died anyway

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    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Sounds like it’s not a very pleasant treatment:(

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  • ArbitraryValue@sh.itjust.works ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

    About a quarter of the time, yes. The curative effect was from the fever rather than directly from the malaria parasite, and they were experimenting with machines to heat people up relatively safely and reliably without needing to infect them with malaria when the discovery of antibiotics made the whole approach obsolete.

    Link. Paul de Kruif’s book “Microbe Hunters” is a fascinating view into the state of microbiology a hundred years ago, when the idea that scientists could create a treatment that would cure a disease was still somewhat audacious.

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    • reallykindasorta@slrpnk.net ⁨1⁩ ⁨month⁩ ago

      Excellent, I’ll keep this in mind for the apocalypse, 25% ain’t nothin’

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