What Was the Rationale for Deliberately Injecting Mentally Ill Patients

question 1

Multiple Choice

What was the rationale for deliberately injecting mentally ill patients with malaria?

• A)The patients' immoral behaviors had to be punished with illness.
• B)The high fever would divert patients' attention from the symptoms of mental disorders.
• C)It was a desperate attempt to shock the afflicted individual's system back to normality.
• D)The malaria would bring about a high fever that in some cases had been associated with a reduction in symptoms.

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