In the era where the position of a doctor meant power,wealth and respect,came Trenton Hospital's Dr. Henry Cotton , an ambitious physician who was determined
to revolutionise the world of psychiatry with his ‘contemporary'
theory of 'focal sepsis’. Cotton was focused on curing the most vulnerable- the
mentally ill. However his idea of helping slowly transformed into unnecessarily
operating on patients, causing harm and death to hundreds. Was Henry Cotton
a brilliant doctor that was misguided or a brutish megalomaniac who butchered
the lives of many?