Dr. Cotton Treatments Sparknotes

Without important figures in the nation, how would the United States look as a whole? Countless of people tributed to how the nation grew in many aspects. Figures apon figures have shaped the nation into what it is now such as the infamous Amelia Earhart but who contributed to the nation. A question lingers about who contributed to the understanding and treatments of mental health. Who were all the large quantities of people who indeed contributed to how mental disorders were treated? One figure was an American psychiatrist who changed and develop the ways of mental health. His name was Henry Aloysius Cotton. He flipped the tables of treatments mentally ill people receive at his time even if some treatments were deemed inhumane. Dr. Cotton
Cotton to the point he wrote a book on his treatments and the development that went into it. The Defective Delinquent and Insane shows the technical data that came along with Henry Cotton’s treatments. Pictures/illustrations are shown of one of his infamous treatments that dealt with the extractions of multiple teeth due to his theory of how decaying teeth could lead to mental disorders or the start to it. The book backs up Cotton’s theory on how the “demons” of individuals could be treated. Cotton puts multiple charts of how the treatments ended up working on the patients which have been debunked to be inaccurate in further decades. This detail book gives a better outlook on Cotton’s treatments plus the broad views of his on mental illness. Two pictures that are deemed primary resources with one showing the New Jersey State Hospital poster explaining where infection may lurk in the body that can cause disorders which were used to make patients more aware of what is occurring in the body. The other picture consist of Dr. Cotton working at his own desk while employed at Trenton hospital. He seemed to be busy due to the large amounts of people who wanted to rid these illnesses from the body with his “miracle”
With more doctors knowing, it lead to the doors of mental health care creak open for adequate treatment for these people rather than locking them behind bars. It gave hope to the clueless families who pleaded for help. Cotton also made society aware of how mental illness was caused that gave a better outlook into how people perceived it. Knowledge was due to Cotton and the cures of his that were seen has inhumane.
Even with Cotton’s morib, twisted treatments, they came with a positive outcome. This “breakthrough” sought to inform psychiatrist that mental illness was not caused due to infected organs in the body or decaying teeth. Mental disorders came from an idea more complex than Cotten’s as it wasn’t a physical abnormality that caused these disorders but rather a mental one. Cotton’s research gave leading psychiatrist a clean slate or new concept on how these patients should be correctly treated to the leading years to