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Dr. Henry Cotton Part Two


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Dr. Henry Cotton Part Two
Henry Cotton believed that all mental illness was caused by infection. His 'Focal Infection' theory led to surgical psychiatry. Dr. Cotton thought he could cut mental illness out of a person.
This miniseries covers a history of psychiatry from 1900-1920's, Cotton's atrocities that he inflicted upon innocent people without their consent and how he got away with it.
References;
Henry Andrews Cotton. The Defective, Delinquent, and Insane: The Relation of Focal Infections to Their Causation, Treatment, and Prevention (Kindle Location 2). Princeton University Press. Kindle Edition.
Cotton, Henry A. . The Dental-Mental Connection - Insomnia and Nerve Strain/Oral Infection and Mental Diseases . Unknown. Kindle Edition.
Madhouse, A Tragic Tale of Meglomania and Modern Medicine, by Andrew Skull
https://www.psychodyssey.net/new-at-remember-the-infection-theories-of-dr-henry-cotton-and-the-hundreds-of-deaths-they-led-to/ (https://www.psychodyssey.net/new-at-remember-the-infection-theories-of-dr-henry-cotton-and-the-hundreds-of-deaths-they-led-to/)
https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.80.2.149?journalCode=ajp (https://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/doi/abs/10.1176/ajp.80.2.149?journalCode=ajp)
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