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The Relation of Chronic Sepsis to the So-called Functional Mental Disorders

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 February 2018

Henry A. Cotton
Henry A. Cotton*
Affiliation:
State Hospital, Trenton, New Jersey, U.S.A.; Princeton University
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It is extremely befitting that this Association should be interested in the relation of chronic sepsis to mental disorders, principally for the reason that this idea had its origin in England. As early as 1875, Savage, the English alienist, reported the recovery of cases of mental disorder following the extraction of infected teeth. The full significance of this report, of course, was not realised at the time, for if it had been recognised, an entirely different history of the care and treatment of mental disorders during the last century would have been written.

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Part I.—Original Articles
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Journal of Mental Science , Volume 69 , Issue 287 , October 1923 , pp. 434 - 465
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Copyright © Royal College of Psychiatrists, 1923 

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