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New fears of experiments on children in Tyrol
Further cases of medical experimentation on children have emerged in the wake of claims that children from homes in Vienna were being infected with the malaria virus in the 1960s. New reports have revealed that children in Tyrol, Austria may have been involved in such tests until the end of the 1970s.
"There were girls who, just because they were believed to have masturbated or to have been sexually aroused at some point, were injected with the animal medicine Epiphysan, which we know to have harmful effects on one’s health," historian Horst Schreiber told ORF today (Weds).
His accusations were directed specifically against the late Maria Novak-Vogl, who until 1987 was head of child psychiatry at Innsbruck hospital. At the end of the 1970s the clinic was still administering Epiphysan, a medicine which is used to prevent rutting in cows, in the hope of preventing sexual urges amongst young girls.
According to Scheiber, Nowak-Vogl was a strict Catholic who was heavily influenced by the National Socialists. "Nowak-Vogl described a particular case of a five-year-old who was given a series of radio therapy treatments due to his violent temper," Scheiber said.
The children most commonly used in the experiments were from children’s homes. As well as Nowak-Vogl, teachers and psychiatrists are also thought to be responsible for the treatment of these children in Tyrol who ended up in homes due to bad behaviour that was nothing out of the ordinary at that age. Scheiber has suggested that children from these homes who wet the bed, received brutal experimental treatment and punishment at a time when several other humane methods to deal with such problems were available.
The case in Tyrol has emerged after a now 63-year-old man from Vienna came out and spoke of his experiences as a child living in a home in the capital. The man who was then 16 years old was moved to a psychaitric clinc after he attpemted to run away from the home and was injected with the malaria virus. He has suffered with fevers and sweating ever since.
Such malaria therapies were being administered until the middle of the 1960s and were believed to help with the treatment of psychiatric diseases, particularly amongst young people. The 63-year-old has logged a request for financial compensation in light of his treatment as a child.
Austrian Times
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