Paging Dr. Cotton
Please report to the Vroom Building for the next scheduled interview. Thank you.
Dr. Cotton to the Vroom Building.
Henry Andrews Cotton, M.D. (1876–May 1933) was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton (previously named New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum, now known as Trenton Psychiatric Hospital) in Trenton, New Jersey between 1907 and 1930. He embraced the promising concept of scientific medicine that was emerging among physicians at the turn of the twentieth century, which included a belief that insanity was the result of untreated infections in the body, and to treat them he directed his dental and medical staff to practice “surgical bacteriology” on the patients, often experimentally in nature.
Wikipedia, “Henry Cotton (doctor)“
“By the time Cotton dropped dead of a heart attack at his private club in Trenton, in May 1933, hundreds of patients had died and thousands more had been maimed. Although abdominal surgery ceased with his death, Cotton’s other techniques continued to be used for almost three decades as a succession of his protégés were named superintendent at Trenton.”
Andrew Scull, “Desperate Remedies“
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