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Madhouse Reveals A Long-suppressed Medical Scandal, Shocking In Its Brutality And Sobering In Its Implications. It Shows How A Leading American Psychiatrist Of The Early Twentieth Century Came To Believe That Mental Illnesses Were The Product Of Chronic Infections That Poisoned The Brain. Convinced That He Had Uncovered The Single Source Of Psychosis, Henry Cotton, Superintendent Of The Trenton State Hospital, New Jersey, Launched A Ruthless Campaign To Eliminate The Perils Of Pus Infection. Teeth Were Pulled, Tonsils Excised, Stomachs, Spleens, Colons, And Uteruses Were All Sacrificed In The Assault On Focal Sepsis. Many Patients Did Not Survive Cotton's Surgeries; Thousands More Were Left Mangled And Maimed. Cotton's Work Was Controversial, Yet None Of His Colleagues Questioned His Experimental Practices. Subsequent Historians And Psychiatrists, Too, Have Ignored The Events That Cast Doubt On Their Favourite Narratives Of Scientific And Humanitarian Progress. Andrew Scull Exposes The Full, Frightening Story Of Madness Among The Mad-doctors. Drawing On A Wealth Of Documents And Interviews, He Reconstructs A Nightmarish, Cautionary Chapter In Modern Psychiatry, When Professionals F

Author

Andrew T. Scull

Publisher

New Haven: Yale University Press

Published

2007

Language

EN

ISBN

9780300126709

Subjects

Medical, Memoir, Psychology

Rating

3.31 / 5 (69 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-13