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Malaria vs. Neurosyphilis: the story of an unethical experiment and its mysterious conclusions.

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Wafers stole my roasted hot dog. Not even mad, kind of impressed actually.

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Nothing better than a fire pit night with the girls. #embers #smolderingintensity #girltalk #itisapleasuretoburn #goodbyeoldtaxpapers #pyrotherapy #mesmerizing (at San Jose, California)

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We here at Paleomedicine love to hear about alternative treatments for medical conditions. I'm sure this is of no surprise to our massive, passionate, reader-base. So when we stumbled across this amazing piece of research we couldn't stop our burning, itching, desire to bring it to you all. We are hoping this treatment goes as viral as the infection it attempted to cure. In the early 20th century Julius Wagner-Jauregg discovered a rather unconventional treatment for a common infection. This was before #bigpharma squashed the market with their cheap and easy to manufacture solution. The infection in question, Syphilis. Wagner-Jauregg's solution may seem unconventional. It had a 15% mortality rate, which compared to the usual fate of a Syphilis sufferer is amazing progress. It had been known for a while that Syphilis infections responded Pyrotherapy. Traditionally speaking Pyrotherapy is the process of raising a patients body temperature high enough to kill infections. This was done with hot baths, steam treatment, or even electric blankets. Wagner-Jauregg was a man who liked to think "outside of the box", and lived by the motto, "A man with character needs no principles". This is important to note because as a millennial raised by the media, Ive learnt that someones character defines the validity of their body of work. He decided to venture away from regular methods of Pyrotherapy. Instead he decided to begin a new treatment called Malariotherapy. In order to treat the progressive paralysis of late-stage syphilis he inoculated his Syphilis patients with the blood of patients suffering from Tertian Malaria. The fever brought on by malaria often raised body temperature so high that it treated the neuropsychiatric disorder known as "General paralysis of the insane", the late stages of syphilis. Wagner-Jauregg was awarded the 1927 Nobel Prize in Medicine for this discovery. So there you have it folks. Don't worry about that embarrassing syphilis infection ever again. Now you know about an alternative, free treatment. Just hop on down to your local river and hope to be bitten by just the right mosquito. Then we can all exhale a sigh of relief knowing that your Syphilis infection will be removed from the gene pool. Until next time readers, Keep your money away from modern medicine, #TheDoctored

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Btw,my friend who's at episode 2x05 asked me how the rest of the season is. I plainly told her "not too bad considering Aramis has a bad case of syphilis that ate at his brain" and she believed it was true! It seems believable to anyone, see?

I still think syphilis would be a good explanation for everything. Anne caught Aramis’ aggressive strain of syphilis and passed it on to Louis, that’s why the three of them were such brainless idiots all season.

Now, for the cure give everyone malaria and the fever will kill the syphilis bacteria and restore everybody’s brains. Pyrotherapy wasn’t introduced until the 20th century, but who cares. Certainly not the historical advisor, who has found solace in Czech vodka.