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TIL the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology and Medicine was given to Julius Wagner-Jauregg for curing mental illness by giving patients malaria. (He was, in fact, curing them of syphilis because the malaria fevers are so high that they kill the bacteria. The malaria was subsequently cured with quinine.)

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