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The Defective Delinquent and Insane: The Relation of Focal Infections to Their Causation Treatment and Prevention
The Defective Delinquent and Insane The Relation of Focal Infections to Their Causation Treatment and Prevention Author:Henry A. Cotton For centuries physicians have sought to identify precisely the causes of disease. In psychiatry the search for a definitive etiology has taken many forms and given rise to a variety of theories. During the 1920s the belief that mental disease was related to earlier focal Infections gained some popularity. One of the major exponents of this th... more »eory was Henry A. Cotton, whose book The Defective Delinquent and Insane marshalled evidence on behalf of his ideas. This work is illustrative of the problems in understanding the nature and origins of mental disease.« less