Desperate remedies: a Gothic tale of madness and modern medicine
- 1 February 1987
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Cambridge University Press (CUP) in Psychological Medicine
- Vol. 17 (3) , 561-577
- https://doi.org/10.1017/s0033291700025824
Abstract
Synopsis: The theory that many diseases were produced by focal infection or chronic sepsis enjoyed a brief vogue in general medicine in the first quarter of the twentieth century. This paper explores its practical applications in psychiatry, which extended well into the 1930s. The analysis focuses particularly closely on the activities of Henry A. Cotton at the Trenton State Hospital in New Jersey.Keywords
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