Robert M. Kaplan, MBChB, MA (Journ), MPhil (Sc), FRANZCP

Treatment for "the scourge of psychiatry" involved malariotherapy-infecting the patient with malaria; the resulting high fevers were believed to kill off the syphilis organisms.

This month in history: Determined to regard his patients as individuals, Swiss psychiatrist Eugen Bleuler sought to understand his patients and coined the term schizophrenia.

Pseudopatients and their discontents: an historical perspective.