Evening public ledger. [volume] (Philadelphia [Pa.]) 1914-1942, 1918-10-22
PULLING TEETH
| INSANITY CURE
DIR. Cotton. Jersey Expert.
Traces Infection to Vic
TINS Mouth
DENTISTS ARE BLAMED
State TO Recommend Treat
ment Developed in Eleven
Years Research

Trenton. Oct. 22. Experimenting dis
coyeries announcing a permanent cure
for insanity by extracting infected teeth
divulged by an N-ray examination. re-
moving infected tonsils and clearing up
the gastro-intestinal infection are set
forth in a report based on the results Of
eleven wears Of scientific experimental
ton submitted today 70 the State Board
OF Charities and Corrections by Or.
Henry \. Cotton, medical director OF
the New Jersey state Hospital for the
Insane at Trenton
Referring TO the results Of his OK
perimenial work, Doctor Cotton states
We are able, TO cure early cases in
a very short time. prevent the disease
from becoming chronic in a large num-
her OF cases. ard restore certain num-
Der who have been in the hospital for
as long as nine years This we are
dong daily We have found that infec-
ton OF the chronic type and the result
ing toNemia are tho basis OF many men
tai disturbances. These chronic infec-
TONS are known as fecal infections and
y
existence becoming known TO the pa
tient and until quite recently the physi-
Clans and the dentists have been igno-
rant o. their existence
Teeth start Infection
We are practically prepared to state
that this infection originates in the teeth
as we find the same organism in the alb
Scesscd teeth, tonsils. stomach and duo
denunl, and in no cases have we been
able to eliminate the teeth as the origin
Of the Infection. We feel that we have
established a very important fact as ap-
plcable to general medicine as 10 nerv-
Gus and mental diseases-that is, that
the infection originates in the teeth and
after some years infects their organs
through the Emphatic system.
Tn April We were able TO utilize a
method Of accurately determining the in
fec'ion of the stomach by making direct
cultures from these organisms This
method was first used by Dr Martin w
Hehfus. Of Philadelphia. in tho ordinary
eastro-!ntestinal conditions and since we
have adopted this method we have exam
ined two hundred and seventy-five cases
and found that the stomach or duode-
mum. or in some cases both, were In
fected"
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Doctor Cotton says:
The practice of the ordinary dentist
who lacks the knowledge OF the relation
or infected teeth and stomach condi-
tons in putting in gold caps. fixed bridge
work and pivot teeth. without making
photographs of the patients teeth to de-
termne whether the root is infected Is
largely responsible for the source of in
fection I'm the patients teeth. lie states
that hardly any OF the better class of
patients who come in the hospital are
free from capped and pivot teeth or
bridge work. and in all cases, he has
found them 20 be seriously infected, so
II has been the practice Of the insti-
tutional dentist 10 remove the bridge
work and extract these teeth at once.
To Recommend TO state
state Commissioner Of Charities and
1 Corrections Burdette q. Lewis. IN dis
cussing the foregoing report uf H.. Cot
toms experimental work IN The medical
and dental treatment Of the insane
said:
If Dr. Cotton's conclusion as to III,
real reasons for recoveres are found by
specialists TO be correct, after sufficient
experimentation, then indeed. his dis
coveries are epoch-making. In any
event, such recOveries as are already re-
corded in the reports of pr. cotton are
truely remarkable and most unusual.
The State board IL watching the re-
suits of the experimental work of pr.
Cotton and his associates with a great
deal of interest. principally because il
is the intention of the board TO recon-
mend to all the other institutions for the
insane teeble-minded, epileptic and other
subnormals. the application of the meth
DDS Of treatment, as soon as they be-
come sufficiently standardized TO per-
init the medical and dental experts in
the other institutions to make use Of
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