Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
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Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine
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Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine is a 2005 book by the psychiatric sociologist Andrew Scull which discusses the work of the controversial psychiatrist Henry Cotton at Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey in the 1920s. Cotton became convinced that insanity was fundamentally a toxic disorder and he surgically removed body parts to try to improve mental health. This often began with the removal of teeth and tonsils: Scull argues that Cotton's obsession with focal sepsis as
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2005 book by Andrew Scull
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