Scientists shocked to find antibiotics alleviate symptoms of schizophrenia

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6. Way back when I was in my early to mid teens I read a book written by someone

who suffered from schizophrenia. He said that when he suffered from a head cold or flu, his symptoms went away. In one of his stable periods, he researched everything he could about the history of schizophrenia and found that in ancient times, the Greeks would drive the victims into the swamp where they would contract malaria because the malaria would alleviate the symptoms. It made me wonder if there were not some medical condition rather than mental condition that caused the illness.

I think the book was written in the late fifties or early sixties and I probably read it in the late sixties or very early seventies... before there was much knowledge of brain chemistry and the understanding that mental illness was as much a physical problem and any other illness rather than a failing of character of the afflicted.

It makes sense that antibiotics might help treat a "mental" illness...