Born 7 Mar 1857; died 27 Sep 1940 at age 83.

Austrian #psychiatrist and #neurologist whose made the first use of a #shock #therapy. He investigated the connections between #thyroid function, #goitre and #cretinism. On his advice the Government, some time later, started selling salt with added #iodine, in the areas most affected by goitre. His main life's work built on an earlier observation that certain nervous disorders improved in patients who had caught a fever-inducing #illness. He applied this in the treatment of #syphilitic #meningoencephalitis, or general #paresis, by deliberately inducing #malaria (chosen because it could be controlled with quinine). The method brought a previously incurable fatal disease under medical control and earned him the 1927 Nobel Prize in #Physiology or #Medicine.