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TIL that in the late 1800’s, Doctors would infect sick patients with a secondary disease, in order to cure them of the primary one eg. a patient with syphilis would be injected with malaria, to give them a fever and thus, cure them (Most prominently by Dr. Julius Wagner-Jauregg)

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