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Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
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The Way to Your Brain Is Through Your Stomach | Eater
"In the 1920s, Dr. Henry Cotton championed a practice called “surgical bacteriology,” carrying out radical removals of patients’ colons (and recommending tooth extractions) to eliminate presumed harmful gut bacteria. He claimed very high cure rates, but the operations had an alarmingly high mortality rate of about 30% and left many survivors severely compromised by the loss of major portions of their digestive systems." - Claudia Geib
