Have so far explained the effect of malaria treatment in progressive paralysis as follows.

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Until now, the effect of malaria treatment in progressive paralysis has been explained as follows. Some authors admitted that high temperature kills spirochetes, others believed that immune bodies caused by malaria plasmodia neutralize spirochetes, and, finally, still others express the idea that due to the action of fever, the permeability of meningi and vessels increases and the antiluetic agents used more easily penetrate to the diseased places of the central nervous system. All these explanations of the therapeutic effect of malaria fever in PP do not satisfy Carbo (Wiener klin. Wochenschrift, № 33, 1931).

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