[The French Revolution and mental troubles 1789-1799].

Are wars and political strife factors in the cause of mental diseases? For instance what do we know about the French Revolution? Contemporary writers of memoirs are untrustworthy, whether opponents or supporters. We have neither morbiditiy nor mortality statistics nor accurate diagnostics, for the patients in public hospitals or private mental homes. A few cases are described for some mystical or political lunatic women, and some Jacobin leaders.

[The doctor in the city].

In his own town, the physician plays an important part in the public organizations of public health, in the commissions that grant permits and pensions, in the private charity societies, for the collection of epidemiological informations, etc. Unfortunately his place is small in the hospitals management, and he is not a member of the board for health insurance councils. In the State, he has to be a member of the consultative commissions for developing a health policy, and a public health system cannot work without his complete support.

[Examples of foreign countries].

In France we are not well aware of the health of people in situation of poverty: they have not resources enough to care of oneself, not knowing the services of social welfare, and not identified by these services. 1) Some studies in Great Britain and in U.S.