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Henry Cotton

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American psychiatrist (1876-1933)

United StatesLived 1876 to 1933 · aged 56
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Henry Andrews Cotton was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton, in Trenton, New Jersey.

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Henry Cotton, at the top left corner, with the ice hockey team of the University of Maryland during the 1896-1897 seasonHenry Cotton, at the top left corner, with the ice hockey team of the University of Maryland during the 1896-1897 seasonIllustration of a mouth with teeth removed from Cotton's book The defective delinquent and insane: the relation of focal infections to their causation, treatment and prevention.Illustration of a mouth with teeth removed from Cotton's book The defective delinquent and insane: the relation of focal infections to their causation, treatment and prevention.

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Henry Andrews Cotton was an American psychiatrist and the medical director of the New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton, in Trenton, New Jersey. During his tenure from 1907 to 1930, Cotton and his staff employed experimental surgery and bacteriology techniques on patients, which included the routine removal of some or all of patients' teeth, tonsils, spleens, colons, ovaries, and other organs. These pseudoscientific practices persisted even after statistical reviews disproved Cotton's claims of high cure rates and revealed high mortality rates as a result of these procedures.

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United States
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Lived 1876 to 1933 · aged 56
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