Mental Epidemics

Abstract

The article is the text of the speech of the Russian psychiatrist Ardalion A. Tokarsky (1859–1901), delivered at the fourth annual meeting of the Society of Neuropathologists and Psychiatrists at the Imperial Moscow University, October 24, 1893. 

First published in the journal “Issues of Philosophy and Psychology” (1893. No. 20. P. 203–223). The text is brought into line with modern spelling and punctuation.