Chronicle and mixture. Volume XVII, № 4 (1910)

The Ministry of Public Education submitted to the State Duma in the budgetary order a loan for the construction of a clinic for mental illness at the Imperial Kazan University.

According to the zemstvo doctor of the Slobodzeya section of the Tiraspol district, he had to observe in the village. Chobruchi is a curious psychic phenomenon. In this village, as early as the beginning of October, among the peasant Moldavian youth, men and women, mostly at the age of 15-18 years, a special psychosis appeared. The doctor was able to attend one of the meetings of these youth and witnessed the following phenomenon. Under the influence of some external stimulus, however slight, for example, tobacco smoking, one of those gathered suddenly has nervous attacks in the form of shaking his head and hands and shouting: «devilish suggestion», «damn smoke.»