Henry Cotton
Superintendent of Trenton State Hospital who removed teeth and organs to treat mental illness
Henry Cotton (Superintendent of Trenton State Hospital who removed teeth and organs to treat mental illness) is discussed on podcasts in TMT.
Discussed in
#502 – Psychiatry, Insane Asylums, Mental Illness, ECT, Lobotomies, Freud & JungLex Fridman Podcast · Sep 17, 2026
Historian Andrew Scull talks with Lex Fridman about the history of psychiatry, from asylums, eugenics, lobotomy and ECT to Freud, CBT, psychiatric drugs and psychiatry's current crisis.