The Use of Malarial Fever to Treat Paresis

question 66

Multiple Choice

The use of malarial fever to treat paresis

• A) is an example of the barbaric treatment that mental patients received at the beginning of the twentieth century.
• B) proved to be so ineffectual that many professionals abandoned the biological explanation of mental disorders.
• C) represented the first clear-cut defeat of a mental disorder by medicine.
• D) was the first time scientists used knowledge of brain chemistry to develop specific drugs for treating mental disorder.

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