P. S. 2571

FROM THE WORKS OF DOCTOR KRUPOV.

"ON MENTAL ILLNESSES IN GENERAL AND ON THEIR EPIDEMIC DEVELOPMENT IN PARTICULAR" (*)

Many, many years have already passed since I began constantly dedicating the time remaining after treating patients and fulfilling my duties to the exposition of comparative psychiatry the study and treatment of mental illness from a point of view that is entirely new and belongs to me. However, a lack of confidence in my own powers, modesty, and caution have until now forbidden me from any publication of my theory. Today I make my first attempt, prompted by the premonition of a speedy transition into the mineral-chemical kingdom, the main inconvenience of which is the absence of consciousness. It seems to me

(*) In offering this excerpt from the notes of the venerable and likely very skillful Doctor Krupov, we in no way think that his original opinion, which has visibly turned into a mental disorder, into an idée fixe fixed idea/obsession, could offend anyone. A man who considers history to be a chronic madness, and considers all people on the globe (except himself!) to be insane, has extended the absurdity of his opinion to the level of universality where it becomes impersonal. One may laugh at him, but one cannot be angry. The very best thing one can and should say to him is Medice, cura te ipsum Physician, heal thyself.