Epidemical Contagion in Spiritualism

Having just re-read the brochure by Dr. Forbes Winslow on "? Spiritualistic Madness," I cannot refrain from mentioning an instance where I quite believe that a distinct epidemical spiritualistic contagion was present in a room as decided as any miasma at times recognised by sensitive people as the cause of any given fever. I was calling on a friend in Paris, whom I did not know to be a spiritualist. Several spiritualists were present at her afternoon reception ; she herself and her brother were both tracing in