Diseases Were Administered to Treat Other Diseases
A fair amount of patients admitted to asylums had syphilis. During this era, there was no cure for the disease, so many doctors speculated how to solve the problem. One such doctor was Julius Wagner-Jauregg. He theorized that a patient with syphilis, if injected with malaria, would be cured. He conducted experiments on many patients to prove this theory, most likely without their knowledge.