The Psychiatry of the Second World War

Psychiatry at the time, as to day, thought things were rooted in the body. They looked to try to attack where they thought the logy lay. An extreme example a henry cotton and his followers. Henry cotton was superintendent of trenton state hospital in new jersey. He thought that mad people's brains were being poisoned. It was coming from low grade infections in the body which released toxins into the blood stream - poisoning the brain. What do you do about that? You resort to what cotton calls surgical bacteriol. That meant pulling the patients teeth, taking out their tonsils, and when they didn't get better, arguing that they'd swallowed the jomes down into