Show the infection of insanity A derlin berlin newspaper news has published an ah article in which the claim is made that insanity is infectious whether it is so in the same sense that other diseases are arc may well be doubted but no student of social conditions condition 0 can doubt that there are arc classes of people who are susceptible to the infection of unsound ideas nothing is too absurd for belief to these people and fads of all kinds hinds in religious thought political reform and social customs result we presume that no antitoxin anti toxin for either physical or mental liability to the germs 0 of erratic opinions will be discovered salvation from a good deal of this ten dency to go wrong Is found in an effort to be natural and go quietly about the work at hand general good health and good nature are excellent as a means of resistance to disease germs of any kind |