Medical

Unmentionable Madness

Editorial: University of Illinois Press

ISBN: 9780252088223

Pub: 2025-01-01

In 1930, neurosyphilis struck an unsuspecting Mabel Smith. Doctors at the Central State Hospital for the Insane in Indianapolis turned to malaria therapy--a radical treatment that relied on the belief that infection with malaria might save Smith’s life by attacking the bacterium that causes syphilis.