The Trenton Psychiatric Hospital is a state run mental hospital located in Trenton and

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. It previously operated under the name New Jersey State Hospital at Trenton and originally as the New Jersey State Lunatic Asylum. Founded by

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on May 15, 1848, it was the first public mental hospital in the state of New Jersey, and the first mental hospital designed on the principle of the Kirkbride Plan. The architect was the Scottish-American

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. Under the hospital's first superintendent, Dr. Horace A. Buttolph, the hospital admitted and treated 86 patients. In 1907, Dr. Henry Cotton became the medical director. Believing that infections were the key to mental illness, he had his staff remove teeth and various other body parts that might become infected from the hospital patients. Cotton's legacy of hundreds of fatalities and thousands of maimed and mutilated patients did not end with his leaving Trenton in 1930 or his death in 1933; in fact, removal of patients' teeth at the Trenton asylum was still the norm until 1960.'' Madhouse: A Tragic Tale of Megalomania and Modern Medicine'', Andrew Scull, Yale University Press, 2005.

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Trenton Psychiatric Hospital
New Jersey Department of Human Services, Division of Mental Health Services *http://www.rootsweb.com/~asylums/trenton_nj/ *http://ajp.psychiatryonline.org/cgi/content/full/156/12/1982 *http://www.forgottenphotography.com {{authority control Psychiatric hospitals in New Jersey Hospitals established in 1848 Buildings and structures in Mercer County, New Jersey Kirkbride Plan hospitals Psychiatry controversies Buildings and structures in Trenton, New Jersey

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