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Malaria Therapy

What: A misguided effort to fight one disease, syphilis, with another, malaria.
When: 1930s
Where: The Rockefeller Institute

Jan 07, 2016 | Categories: All stories, Early 20th Century (1898-1945), Health & Medicine, Midtown East, Scientists & Institutions | Tags: African-American patients, falciparum, Julius Wagner-Jauregg, malaria, Mark F. Boyd, penicillin, plasmodia, Rockefeller Institute, syphilis | Leave A Comment »

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