Besides heredity, focal infection and autointoxication was psychiatry's predominant explanation of schizophrenia near the turn of the 20th century. In American state New Jersey , the director  of the psychiatric asylum at Trenton State Hospital since 1907 was Henry Cotton. Drawing influence from the medical popularity of focal infection theory, Cotton identified focal infections as the main causes of dementia praecox (now schizophrenia) and manic depression (now bipolar disorder)  . Cotton routinely prescribed surgery to clean the nasal sinuses and to extract the tonsils and dentition. Yet, seeking to clean the entire body of focal infections, Cotton frequently prescribed surgical removal of the appendix, gall bladder, spleen, stomach, colon, cervix, ovaries, testicles, and thereby claimed up to 85\% cure rate.
Besides heredity, focal infection and autointoxication was psychiatry's predominant explanation of schizophrenia near the turn of the 20th century. Henry Andrews Cotton , the director starting in 1907 of the psychiatric asylum at Trenton State Hospital in the American state of New Jersey, identified focal infections as the main causes of dementia praecox (now schizophrenia) and manic depression (now bipolar disorder) , drawing influence from the medical popularity of focal infection theory . Cotton routinely prescribed surgery to clean the nasal sinuses and to extract the tonsils and dentition. Seeking to clean the entire body of focal infections, Cotton frequently prescribed surgical removal of the appendix, gall bladder, spleen, stomach, colon, cervix, ovaries, testicles, and thereby claimed up to 85\% cure rate.
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