Perth Amboy evening news., 1918-10-22
EXTRACT Teeth;
CURE INSANITY
Or. Cotton Reports on Expert
ments and Actual Cases of
Mental Disorders Cured

TRENTON, Oct. 22-In a report
submitted to the State Board of Char
titles and Corrections by DR.. Henry A.
| Cotton, medical director Of the New
Jersey state Hospital for the Insane
at Trenton which is based on the re-
suits OF eleven years Of careful, sci
entifc Experimentation, epoch-mak-
ing discoveries announcing q perma-
nent cure for insanity by extracting
infected teeth divulged by an X-ray
examination. and removing infected
tonsile and clearing up h CASTRO
Intestinal infection are set forth.
we are able to cure early cases In
a very short time. prevent the dis
base from becoming chronic in a
large number of cases, n restore a
certain number who have been in the
hospital for as long as nine years."
declared DIR. Cotton today. referring
to the results of his experimental
work. This we are doing daily. We
have found that infection OF the
chronic type and the resulting toxemia
are the basis Of nan mental disturb
ances. These chronic infections are
known as focal infections and may be
present for years without their exist
ence becoming known to the patient,
and until recently h physicians and
the dentists have been ignorant OF
their existence.
I'VE r practically prepared to
state that this Infection originates in
the teeth, as we find the same organ-
ism in the abscessed teeth, tonsils,
stomach and d~uodenum, and in no
cases have we been able to ELIMINATE
the teeth Is the origin of the infec-
tion." continued the Medical Direc-
tor. ut would appear hat the in
lection of the stomach and duodenum
was In the wall Of these organs and
that the organism migrated from the
teeth to the lymphatics and in GER
tain fatal cases infected the whole
system. We have had five acute
TT has proven successful In a'large
number OF cases and consists Of
rather radical measures. All infected
teeth are extracted, n infected tom
sils are removed. Infection of the
gastro-intestinal tract. especially the
stomach and duodenum. has been
treated by frequent irrigations of the
stomach and these organs and a n.y.
podermic administrator OF autoge-
nou vaccines made from the bac-
terra found on examination. In a
certain proportion of cases, especially
those in which the tooth infection Is
of recent origin. merely extracting
the teeth will clear up the mental
condition."
State Commissioner of Charities
and Corrections Burdette G. Lewis. IN
discussing the foregoing startling re-
port of DIR. Cotton's experimental
work in the medical and dental treat
ment of the insane, said:
1T have received the weekly pro-
gress reports from DR.. Cotton of the
remarkable results flowing from his
treatment of even chronic cases of
insanity where the pulling Of teeth
and the analysis of the contents of
the stomach and duodenum and the
treatment by the use OF v~accines have
brought about extraordinary c
cries. If DIR. Cotton's conclusion as
the real reasons for the recoveries
are found by specialists to be correct,
after sufficient experimentation, then,
indeed, his discoveries are epoch
making. In any event. such recov-
cries as are already recorded in the
reports OF DR.. Cotton are truly re-