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 disorders.

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The use of malarial fever to treat paresis (a late stage of syphilis affecting the brain) was considered a significant medical breakthrough at the time, representing a notable victory over a mental disorder through medical intervention. This treatment, developed by Julius Wagner-Jauregg, earned him the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 1927.

The Use of Malarial Fever to Treat Paresis ________