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=**Julius Wagner-Jauregg** =

**Born:** March 7, 1857, in Wels, Austria. **Died:** September 27, 1940, in Vienna, Austria (at the age of 83) **Nationality:** Austrian **Occupation:** Medicine - Pychiatrist, Neurologist **Achievement:** Noble prize winner 1927 [] Julius Wagner-Jauregg was a Pychiatist and Neurologist who disvcovered an effective treatment for general paresis (also known as Syphiltic Meningoencephalitis). He found that he could treat mental disease by inducing a fever. He won the 1927 Nobel Prize in Physiology (medicine) for this discovery. Julius' first treatmeant was to inject malaria parasites into patients to give them a high fever, which seemed to be very successful in reducing the mental illness. This was a pretty good risk because the malaria could be treated with quinine medicine, which was available at that time. The contribution to society that Julius Wagner-Jauregg made was to help cure the mentally ill. We remember him by his ability to do interesting experiments and take risks. Julius Wagner-Jauregg was born March 7, 1857, in Wels, Austria. [] He attended the Schottengymnasium in Vienna before going on to study Medicine at the University of Vienna from 1874 to 1880. He got his doctorate in 1880 with the thesis "L'origine et la fonction du coeur accelere." ( " The origin and function of the heart accelerates .") He left the institute in 1882. If i was to be a scientist i would be a zoologist, Because i think it would be great to learn much, much more about how animals sleep, eat, play and comunicate with each other. It would be a amazing experience. I might even have the chance to learn how to save almost extinct animals, or maybe even find a new species of animal.

Bibliography Wagner-Jauregg Julius, World Books Biographical encyclopedia of scientists, 2003, Volume 8, World book Inc, Chicago. []

By Jessie Jones