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Medical Therapies and the Body Politic

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“A good deal of our politics is physiological.” When Ralph Waldo Emerson made this remark in his characteristically emphatic way, he might have been merely alluding to the traditional notion that the physical body and political systems are related in some odd way. But that Emerson was saying this in America in 1851 has a significance that goes beyond his being a clever, bookish man with the habit of connecting dots across wide conceptual spaces.

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1. Emerson, Ralph Waldo, “Fate,” essay of 1851 in The Conduct of Life, Centenary Ed., 6 (Cambridge, Mass.: At the Riverside Press, 1904), 13.Google Scholar

2. From the Preface to Shryock, Richard Harrison, Medicine in America: Historical Essays (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1966), p. xiiiGoogle Scholar. See also two other books by Shryock, , The Development of Modern Medicine: An Interpretation of the Social and Scientific Factors Involved (Philadelphia: Univ. of Penn. Press, 1936)CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Medicine and Society in America, 1660–1860 (New York: New York Univ. Press, 1960)Google Scholar. Others who comment on the ties between medical history and cultural history are Duffy, John, The Healers: The Rise of the Medical Establishment (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1976)Google Scholar; Kett, Joseph F., The Formation of the American Medical Profession: The Role of Institutions, 1780–1860 (New Haven: Yale Univ. Press, 1968)Google Scholar; Rothstein, William G., American Physicians in the Nineteenth Century; From Sects to Science (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1972)Google Scholar; Shafer, Henry Burnell, The American Medical Profession, 1783–1850Google Scholar, Faculty of Political Science of Columbia Univ. eds., Studies in History, Economics and Public Law, No. 417 (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1936); and Stern, Bernhard J., American Medical Practice in the Perspectives of a Century (New York: Commonwealth Fund, 1945).Google Scholar

3. Shryock, Richard Harrison, “The Need for Studies in the History of American Science” (1944), p. 301Google Scholar, and “The Interplay of Social and Internal Factors in Modern Medicine: An Historical Analysis” (1953), p. 307Google Scholar—both in Medicine in America.

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8. Cited by Oliver Wendell Holmes as a statement made by one of Rush's biographers.—“Currents and Counter-Currents,” in Medical Essays, 1842–1882 (Boston: Houghton Mifflin, 1891), p. 180.Google Scholar

9. When Rush sued the British pamphleteer William Cobbett for libel because of his attacks against Rush's methods of bleeding and purging, contemporary politics was drawn in. Cobbett, backed by Hamilton, supported the Federalists, who believed in government directed by strong leaders free to impose “heroic” regulations on the citizenry. Rush stood with the Jeffersonians, who preferred a light hand in government, in the manner of what was later called “self-limiting,” or laissez-faire, medical therapy. In the trial (conducted during December 1799 in Philadelphia), therefore, Rush's medical practices took a position counter to his political beliefs. See Winthrop, and Neilson, Frances, Verdict for the Doctor: The Case of Benjamin Rush (New York: Hastings House, 1958).Google Scholar

10. Holmes warns against dabbling “in the muddy sewer of politics” in Medical Essays, p. 384Google Scholar. Even more circumspect, Dr. D. W. Cathell cautions against making any public show of personal political concerns, in his influential volume, The Physician Himself and What He Should Add to His Scientific Acquirements, 2nd ed., “carefully revised” (Baltimore: Cushing & Bailey, 1882), p. 11Google Scholar. On the other hand, the early years of the Republic found many physicians serving directly in politics. See Knapp, Samuel Lorenzo, Lectures on American Literature (New York: Bliss, 1829), Lecture 9, p. 122Google Scholar. See also “Doctors in Government,” Organization Section, The Journal of the American Medical Association, 163, No. 5 (02 2, 1957), 361–64Google Scholar, and Glaser, William A., “Doctors and Politics,” American Journal of Sociology, 66, no. 3 (11 1960), pp. 230–45.CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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14. See letter of Jefferson, to Adams, , 10 28, 1813Google Scholar, in ibid., pp. 425–26.

15. Letter of October 24, 1823, in ibid., 10:277. That Jefferson was normally for free trade is amply attested to. See The Anas of 06 3, 1792Google Scholar (ibid., 1:198); letter of August 13, 1800 (ibid., 7:452); Notes on the State of Virginia (ibid., 3: 279). But he went on record in “Report of Commerce and Navigation” (1793)Google Scholar that if foreign nations tried to impose commercial regulations, the United States would enforce “counter prohibitions, duties, and regulations, also” (ibid., 6:480). Hamilton, who wanted to “leave industry to itself,” also believed that if other nations placed monopolies on its goods, the United States would act likewise, “by the principles of distributive justice.” See “The Report on the Subject of Manufactures” of 1792, in Syrett, Harold C., ed., The Papers of Alexander Hamilton, 10 (New York: Columbia Univ. Press, 1979), 232–97Google Scholar. As for the “free trade” of people and ideas, Jefferson insisted (letter of June 20, 1816) that the United States had the right to keep out undesirables whose presence might upset the “fundamental principles of its association.” Wanting nothing to do with ‘ephemeral and pseudocitizens,” he said, “we may exclude them from our territory, as we do persons infected with disease” (Ford, 10:34). Of course, if “dangerous” ideas came from within American shores, they were approved, as when Jefferson noted in a letter of December 26, 1820, to Lafayette, “The disease of liberty is catching” (ibid., p. 179).

16. Price, Richard, Observations on the Importance of the American Revolution, and the Means of Making It a Benefit to the World (Boston: Powars & Willis, 1784), pp. 6364Google Scholar. See also note 130, below.

17. See p. 76 below, and note 47, below, for the Hobbesian definitions.

18. Rush, Benjamin, Medical Inquiries and Observations upon the Diseases of the MindGoogle Scholar, The History of Medicine Series, Auspices of the Library of the New York Academy of Medicine, No. 15 (1812; rpt. New York: Hafner, 1962), pp. 114–15. By the 1840s, however, hypochondria, courtesy of the Whigs, was back in force; see Emerson's vivid account of the sickness in Gilman, William H. and Parson, J. E., The Journals and Miscellaneous Notebooks …, 8 (18411843; rpt. Cambridge, Mass.: Belknap Press, 1970), 8789.Google Scholar

19. See D'Elia, Donald J., “Benjamin Rush: Philosopher of the American Revolution,” Transactions of the American Philosophical SocietyGoogle Scholar, new series, No. 64, part 5 (1974), 88. Rush would have nothing to do with the kind of heroic treatments that supported an imperialistic, nationalistic fever. See his “Medicine Among the Indians of North America; A Discussion” (1774)Google Scholar, and “A Plan for a Peace Office for the United States” (1799)Google Scholar, in Runes, Dagobert D., ed., The Selected Writings … (New York: Philosophical Library, 1947), pp. 286, 2223Google Scholar. In the former essay Rush states that the ancient Jews and the Indians were a healthy people because theirs was a “democratic form of government.” By like means—naturally, without aggression—Americans could sustain their new Republic, pursue happiness, and keep in good health. Rush did not consider that the Jews and the Indians had difficulty in keeping from extinction at the hands of those who used “heroic” methods in order to curtail the “diseases” their alien ways of life seemed to spread.

20. Bigelow, Jacob, “On Self-limited Diseases: A Discourse Delivered Before the Massachusetts Medical Society, at Their Annual Meeting, May 27th, 1835,” in Nature in Disease: Illustrated in Various Discourses and Essays, to Which Are Added Miscellaneous Writings, Chiefly on Medical Subjects, 2nd ed., enlarged (New York: Wood, 1859), p. 49.Google Scholar

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22. Etzler, John Adolphus, The Paradise Within the Reach of All Men …, in The Collected Works, Facsimile Reproductions (Delman, N.Y.: Scholars' Facsimiles and Reprints, 1977), p. 55.Google Scholar

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25. Jefferson, Thomas, Writings, Memorial Edition (Washington, D.C.: Jefferson Memorial Association, 1903), II, 230Google Scholar. When writing to Rush about the yellow fever (letter of September 23, 1800; Ford, Writings, 7:459), he shifted from reference to a literal disease to metaphor: “I view great cities as pestilential to the morals, the health and the liberties of men.”

26. Robert A. Ferguson makes this clear in his essay “‘Mysterious Obligation’: Jefferson's Notes on the State of Virginia,” American Literature, 52, No. 3 (11 1980), 381406.Google Scholar

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29. Emerson clearly states the danger of, and desire for, the attainment of a “single-theory” interpretation of complex matters in Nature, 1 (Centenary Edition, 3): “All Science has one aim, namely to find a theory of nature.… Whenever a true theory appears, it will be its own evidence. Its test is, that it will explain all phenomena.” That “all” is the sticking point.

30. Although Sennett and Sontag are highly critical of the injurious misuse, for political and social purposes, of metaphor, their own books indicate that if metaphors can be badly used, they also lead toward understanding. See Sennett, Richard, Authority (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1980)Google Scholar, and Sontag. As Lian Hudson points out, “Metaphors permeate thought, and thought guides action.” See Hudson's review of George Lakoff and Mark Johnson, Metaphors We Live By, in Times [London] Literary Supplement, No. 4, 067 (03 13, 1981), 271–72Google Scholar. And social action is what is being examined—the consequences of metaphoric thought.

31. Booth, Wayne, “Metaphors as Rhetoric,” Critical Inquiry, 5, No. 1 (Autumn 1978), 66CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The next quotation is from p. 68. Booth's essay is in an issue devoted entirely to examination of the legitimacy of the metaphor as a means of getting at truth.

32. This quotation and the following extract are from the abstract of Chapter 4 provided by Wallas, Graham in Human Nature in Politics (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1921), p. 19.Google Scholar

33. Bateson, Gregory, Mind and Nature: A Necessary Unity (New York: E. P. Dutton, 1979), pp. 11, 170.Google Scholar

34. Thomas, Lewis, The Lives of a Cell: Notes of a Biology Watcher (New York: Viking Press, 1974), pp. 12, 14Google Scholar. The following quotations are from pp. 14, 104, 5. See also Thomas, Lewis, The Medusa and the Snail: More Notes of a Biology Watcher (New York: Viking Press, 1979), pp. 34Google Scholar, where Thomas states that biological information justifies the speculation that all creatures are “determined” to “locate others, not for predation but to set up symbiotic households.”

35. Brody, Howard, “The Systems View of Man: Implications for Medicine, Science, and Ethics,” Perspectives in Biology and Medicine, No. 17 (Autumn 1973), 7192Google Scholar. The diagram is from p. 74. Brody is most interested in what his “systems” view promises “for the expectations of the concepts ‘health’ and ‘disease’” He believes this method can solve many current medical problems.

36. Wilson, Edward O., On Human Nature (Cambridge, Mass.: Harvard Univ. Press, 1978).Google ScholarPubMed

37. Thomas, , The Medusa and the Snail, pp. 3, 10Google Scholar. Hobbes rejects the notion that communities of bees and of men have anything in common: The former are naturally good to one another; the latter are not. See Hobbes, Thomas, Elements of Law, Natural and Politic, 2nd ed., with new Introduction by M. M. Goldsmith, ed. Tonnies, Ferdinand (London: Cass, 1969), pp. 102–3.Google Scholar

38. Wills, Garry, Inventing America: Jefferson's Declaration of Independence (Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, 1978)Google Scholar. Chapter 7 shows Jefferson approaching the Declaration as a “scientific paper.” Daniel Boorstin's The Lost World of Thomas Jefferson (New York: Holt, 1948)Google Scholar turns specifically to the ideas held by Rush and other members of the American Philosophical Society that link together physiological, mechanical, and political data. See letter of February 23, 1798, from Jefferson that likens the constitutional government to planets in balanced orbit; in Jefferson, Memorial Edition, 10:3.

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42. Ibid., p. 6.

43. Ibid., pp. 115–17. On page 132, Hobbes indicates that “natural” fathers are good only for “generation,” while “preservation” is the mother's work. Only the “artificial” father—the “sovereign”—is capable of taking over the mother's role.

44. Ibid., p. 44.

45. Hobbes, Thomas, Elements of PhilosophyGoogle Scholar, in Molesworth, I:11. In his “Epistle Dedicatory” (p. viii) Hobbes praises the study of natural science for contributing to knowledge of the nature of motion (as furthered by Galileo), especially as exemplified by “man's body” (as advanced by the “new doctrine” of Doctor Harvey). “The end of knowledge is power” (p. 7); the knowledge of physics and physicians is about power and how it is attained. Macpherson (pp. 10, 18, 40) qualifies previous arguments that Hobbes's political theory rests only on psychological principles; he believes that Hobbes drew heavily on the “laws of the motion of material” implied to be “physiological,” which is what Jefferson and Rush took the study of nature's mechanics to be. In his quest for effective “motion,” Hobbes's man is as much a body in action as a mass of emotions. Thus the medical slant is appropriate for following Hobbes's theory to its expression in American political policy. In his Introduction to Elements of Law Goldsmith states that the “organic analogy” in Leviathan is merely incidental to Hobbes's line of argument. I grant that the connections between the body natural and the body politic fade in and out like static, but where they appear they are expressed with a clarity and forcefulness that command our attention.

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47. Ibid., p. 193.

48. Hobbes, , Leviathan, p. 306.Google Scholar

49. Ibid., p. x.

50. Ibid., p. 196.

51. Ibid., pp. 306–9. The following quotations are from pp. 309 and 319–21.

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53. Locke, John, Two Treatises of Government, ed. Laslett, Peter (Cambridge, U.K.: At the Univ. Press, 1960), p. 289. Italics added.Google Scholar

54. C. Delisle Burns, essay on “Politics,” in Hastings, James, ed., Encyclopaedia of Religion and Ethics, 10 (New York: Scribner's, 1908), 101Google Scholar. Actually Locke's references are more “physical” than Hobbes's because the latter made mathematics, not anatomy, the basis of his physiology of human mechanics.

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56. See Dewhurst, Kenneth, John Locke (1632–1704), Physician and Philosopher: A Medical Biography, with an Edition of the Medical Notes in His Journals (London: Wellcome Historical Medical Library, 1963).Google Scholar

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58. Ibid., p. 349.

59. Ibid., p. 351.

60. Ibid., pp. 368–69. Hobbes and Locke agree that if men were differently constituted, there would be no governments. For “were it not for the corruption, and vitiousness of degenerate Men, there would be no need of any other, no necessity that Men should separate from this great … Community [of nature], and by positive agreements combine into smaller and divided associations” (ibid., p. 370). See Leviathan, p. 155Google Scholar, for Hobbes's statement of what could be but is not since men are what they are.

61. Henry D. Aiken—editor of Hume's Moral and Political Philosophy (New York: Hafner, 1948)Google Scholar —offers an important comment on the kind of laissez-faire approach Hume's notion of “little governing” implies (pp. xlv–xlvi). Today's theorists who pick up on the Humean theme of limited government action out of their own dislike of totalitarianism are overlooking the fact that Hume thought people need few laws only because they are habituated by custom to unconscious obedience to the state's authority. Because the state does not consider it ought to act vigorously to serve the people, there is no occasion for it to assume (for better or worse) “protectionist” powers. As for Locke, note the difference between his position and that of Rush. Rush the physician was for the “artifice” of extreme interventionist therapies; Rush the political theorist generally preferred a free play of social action on the part of citizen and society. Locke the doctor and Locke the theorist assumed the reverse of Rush's positions.

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88. On one occasion Rush indulged the hope that men could reform the body into the attainment of angelic moral faculties. See his 1786 essay “The Influence of Physical Causes upon the Moral Faculty,” in Selected Writings, pp. 181211.Google Scholar

89. Rush saw fever as an enemy that (in his words) “requires medicine that possesses the strength of Hercules to subdue it.” See Holmes, p. 250. In 1862 the fevers in New York City's slums were also causing the concerned to call for a “Hercules.” See Brieger, Gert H., “Sanitary Reform in New York City: Stephen Smith and the Passage of the Metropolitan Health Bill,” Bulletin of the History of Medicine, 40, No. 5 (0910 1966), 417.Google Scholar

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116. This phrase was used ironically by Dr. J. Marion Sims in his 1876 AMA presidential address (see Rothstein, p. 200), but the association preferred to take it seriously.

117. Extensive documentation and interpretation of licensing procedures are available. They give the details of the processes by which various self-appointed groups jockeyed for authority to regulate exclusion or to open the gates to all comers. Either action might have been prompted by laudable motives or for selfaggrandizing reasons. Useful sources are Duffy, , pp. 5471, 241, 291–97Google Scholar, and Shryock, , Medical Licensing in America, 1650–1965 (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins Univ. Press, 1967).Google Scholar Also see Rothstein, , pp. 107–8Google Scholar; and Pilcher, Lewis S., “Codes of Medical Ethics,”Google Scholar “American Medical Association, First Code of Medical Ethics,” and “American Medical Association, Principles of Medical Ethics”—all contained in Reiser, Stanley Joe, Dyck, Arthur J., and Curran, William J., eds., Ethics in Medicine: Historical Perspectives and Contemporary Concerns (Cambridge, Mass.: MIT Press, 1977), pp. 2639.Google ScholarShryock, , Development of Modern Medicine, p. 255Google Scholar, and Kett, , Formation …, p. 165Google Scholar, quote declarations made in 1844 and 1847 that take opposed political views of licensing.

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124. Quoted in Schlesinger, Arthur M. Jr., The Age of Jackson (Boston: Little, Brown, 1949), p. 335.Google Scholar On page 338 he observes that businessmen of the period were largely unaware of what was falling into their laps; they continued to fight programs promoting their own interests.

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131. Article 25,1 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights was adopted by the United Nations in 1948 and expanded in 1966. It stresses everyone's right “to a standard of living adequate for the health and well-being of himself and his family.”

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141. Brown was present during the early days of the epidemic before fleeing for New York in September. President Washington, Secretary of State Jefferson, and Secretary of the Treasury Hamilton also left quickly. (Hamilton had contracted the fever and been treated by Rush's rival Dr. Edward Stevens.) John Adams directly equated the disease-ridden city with what he called the constitutional crisis facing the nation that summer.

142. Carey, Mathew, A Short Account of the Malignant Fever Lately Prevalent in Philadelphia, 4th ed., improved (Philadelphia, 1794; rpt. New York: Arno Press, 1970), p. 23.Google ScholarPowell, J. H.'s book is Bring Out Your Dead: The Great Plague of Yellow Fever in Philadelphia in 1793 (Philadelphia: Univ. of Pennsylvania Press, 1949).CrossRefGoogle Scholar Rush's account is entitled An Account of the Bilious Remitting Yellow Fever as It Appeared in the City of Philadelphia in the Year 1793 (Philadelphia: Dobson, 1794).Google Scholar The quotations that follow with pagination given within parentheses are all from Carey.

143. Powell, , p. 253.Google Scholar During another time of plague John Adams wrote Rush of the latter's fight against “the empire of death”; referred to the fever as being like foreign-born toryism; equated cities, fevers, and “democracy”; and noted the quackery in politics and medicine. See Schutz, John A. and Adair, Douglass, eds., From The Spur of Fame: Dialogues of John Adams and Benjamin Rush, 1805–1813 (San Marino, Calif.: Huntingdon Library, 1966), pp. 21, 23, 37, 50, 243.Google Scholar

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151. Berlant, Jeffrey, Profession and Monopoly: A Study of Medicine in the United States and Great Britain (Berkeley: Univ. of California Press, 1975).Google Scholar In all the statements made by Percival and the AMA codes of 1847, 1913, 1921, 1949, and 1957, Berlant finds anticompetitive sentiments (pp. 64–127).

152. Parsons, Talcott, “The Sick Role and the Role of the Physician Reconsidered,” Milbank Memorial Fund Quarterly, health-and-society issue, No. 53 (Summer 1975), 257–77.Google Scholar

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156. Long, , History of Pathology, pp. 114, 122Google Scholar, accuses Virchow of being a dreamer who sought the “one true theory.” Virchow himself recognized what the mind wants most (to impose unity), in contrast to what the body does (force multiplicity of meanings). See Virchow, p. 323. To adapt D. H. Lawrence's suggestion to Virchow's theory, one must (as Virchow implies) trust the text (the organism), not the author (the interpreting theorist).

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