This grid, which dates from the organization of administrative health correspondence by the Intendants in order to collect lnlormation on epidemics and endemic diseases, found institutional
expression
with the creation on 29 April 1776, on Turgot's initiative, of the "Societe Royale de Medecine" responsible for studying epidemics and epizootic diseases, before disappearing in 1794.
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In Hislnire de lafolie, p. 285 and p. 245, Madness and Civilisation, p. 123 and p. 86, Foucault noted the shiit carried out in eighteenth century medicine, when it is "from the body's lie] uid and solid elements that the secret of disease was sought" rather than from the "animal spirits. " Hermann Boerhaave (1668 1738), integrating the contributions of physics, chemistry and the natural sciences, made illness the result ol an alteration of the balance ol solids and liquids: lnstitittiones medicae, in usus annae exercitationis domesticos digestae (Leyden: Van der Linden, 1708) p. 10, French translation by J. O. de La Mettrie, Institutions de medecine, vol. I (Paris: Huart, 1740). See, C. Daremberg, Histoire des sciences medicates, vol. II, ch. xxvi, pp. 897 903; L. S. King, The Background of Hermann Boerhaave's Doctrines (Boerhaave Lecture, September M1'1, 196yi) (Leyden: University of Leyden publications, 1965).
Fnednch Hoffmann (166O 1742), a doctor at Halle, considered diseases to he the result of alterations of the solid and liquid parts of the body and of their functions, and, in accordance with his mechanistic perspective, he gave a major role to modifications of the tomcity of the fibers and of the mechanics ol the blood How: (1) Fundamenta medicinae ex principiis mechanicis el practicis in usum Philiatrorum succincte proposita . . . jam aucla et emendata, et cetera (Halle: Magdeburgicae, 1703), English translation, Fundamenta Medicinae, trans. L. S. King (London/New York: Macdonald/American Elsevier, 1971) p. 10; (2) Medicina rationalis systemica, in 2 volumes (Halle: Renyeriana, 1718-1720), French translation by J. J. Bruhier (Paris: Brlasson, I738). See C. Daremberg, Histoire, vol. II, pp. 905-952; K. E. Rothschuh, "Studien zu Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742)" Studhoffs Archiv fur Geschichte der Medizjn, vol. 6 0 , 1976, pp. 163 193 and pp. 235 270. On this eighteenth century med icine, see, L. S. King (1) The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University ol Chicago Press, 1958), and (2) "Medical theory and practice at the beginning of the eigh teenth century," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 46, no. 1, 1972, pp. 1 15.
28. Hippocrates, Epidemies, I, 3 section, ? 12 in CEuvres completes, vol. II (1840), pp. 679 681; English translation, Epidemics, Book 1, (iii), 26, in G. E. R. Lloyd, ed. Hippocratic Writings, trans. J. Chadwick and others (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1978), p. 101: "Fevers attended by paroxysms at even numbers of days, reach their crisis also in an even number; il the paroxysms are on odd days, so is the crisis. The hrst period of [lever] in those maladies which reach the crisis in an even number ol days is 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60, 80 or 120 days. (. . . ). It must be noted that il a crisis occurs on any other day than those mentioned, there will be a relapse and also it may prove a latal sign. One must pay attention to these days which have been specified in the course of a particular fever and realize that on them a crisis may take place leading to recovery or death, to improvement or to deterioration. "
29. On the determination ol lucky or ill lated days (or consulting the oracle, see P. Amandry, La Mantique appollinienne a Delphes. Essaisur lefontionnemenl de Coracle (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1940) ch. vn, "Frequence des consultations" pp. 81 85. On Greek "mantictsm" in general, derived from the verb (xavTeuRcrOou meaning "to prophecy," to conjecture according to ora- cles, to act as a seer ((xavrts"), the basic book, although old, ts still that ol A. Bouche Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans VAntiquile, in 4 volumes (Paris: Leroux, 1879 1882). Also, W. R. Halliday, Greek Divination: A Study of its Methods and Principles (London: Macmillan, 1913);J. Defradas, "La divination en Grece" in A. Caquot and M. Lcibovici, eds. La Divination, vol. I (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1968) pp. 157 195; R. Flaceliere, Devins et Oracles grecs; and ed.
J. P. Vernant, Divination et Rationalite (Paris: Le Seuil, I974).
30. Hippocrates "considers an important part ol the art of medicine" to be the ability "to
observe the order of the critical days and to extract the elements ol prognosis from it. When we know these things, we know too when and how to give nourishment to the patient" Hippocrates, Epidemies, III, 3ul section, ? 16, in CEuvres completes, vol. Ill; English translation, Hippocrates, Epidemics, 3, trans. W. H. S. Jones, Hippocrates, vol. I, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1923).
31. Hippocrates, Pronostic, ? 1: "The best doctor seems to me to be one who can know in advance . . . He will treat best those diseases whose future course he can loresee with the help of the present condition" CEuvres completes, vol. II, p. 111; Prognosis ? 1, in Hippocratic Writings: "It seems to be highly desirable that a physician should pay much attention to
? prognosis. . . . he will be better able to effect a cure if he can loretell, trom the present
symptoms, the future course of the disease. " p. 170.
}2. In Hippocrates's own terms, the doctor's task is to "combat (avrayoviaaBai) each of the
accidents through his art. " Or again, "if we know the cause of the disease, we will be in a position to administer what is useful to the body, starting from contraries to counter (SK TOV evavTtov ermao[tEVo<;) the disease" Des Vents, I, in Guvres completes, vol. VI, p. 93 (translation amended by J. L. |; English translation, Airs, I, in Hippocrates, vol. I, Locb Classical Library (1923).
33. Taken from juridical language, the term krisis means "judgment," "decision," before desig nating in medicine the crucial moment at which "the disease judges | KpiveTcu] lor death
or life "Des Affections internes,21 220, 9, in GLuvres completes, vol. VII, p. 217; "Internal Affections," trans. Paul Potter, Hippocrates, vol. VI, Loeb Classical Library (1988). Or again there is this expression in Epidemies, I, 2IK section, ? 4: "In some ( . . . ) the illness is decided by a crisis" in GLuvres completes, vol. II, p. 627; EpiJemies, Book One, (11), ? 8, p. 92. As for the doctor, he is judged on his sense of opportunity and his interventions; see, Des maladies, I, 5. pp. 147 151; Diseases, I, trans. Paul Potter, Hippocrates, vol. V, Loeb Classical Library (1988).
34. See the medical scenes in the plays by Mohere (1622 1673): (1) VAmour medecin (performed
on 14 September, 1665), Act II, scene 2, in which four doctors are involved, and scenes 3-4 of
the consultation, in Guvres completes, ed. M. Rat (Paris: Galhmard, 1947) vol. II, pp. 14 25; (2) Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ( 6 October 1669) in Act I, scenes 7 8, ol which, two doctors and an apothecary are involved, Guvres completes, vol. II, pp. 141-120; and (3) Le Malade imaginaire (10 February 1673), posthumous work ( 1682), Act II, scenes 5 6, and Act III, scene 5, Guvres com- pletes, vol. II , pp. 845-857 and pp. 871 873. See, F. Millepierres, La Vie quotidienne des medecins au temps de Moliere (Paris: Hachette, 1964).
}5. This refers to an episode that took place during Galen's (b. Peigamum 129 A. D. ) first stay in Rome from the autumn of 162 until the summer ol 166, before coming back to settle there from 169 until his death around 200. Sec, De Praecognitione ? 1$ in Opera Omnia, vol. XIV, ed. and Latin trans. C. G. Kiihn (Lipsiae: in officina, C! Cnoblochii, 1827) pp. 666 668; English translation, On Prognosis: Corpus Medicomm Graecorum, V, 8, 1, trans. Vivian Hutton (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1979) pp. 135-137. On Galen's relations with the Roman medical world, see J. Walsh, "Galen clashes with the medical sects at Rome (163 A. D. )," Medical Life, vol. 35,1928, pp. 408-444. On his practice, see,J. Ilberg, "Aus Galens Praxis. Ein Kulturbild aus der Kaiserzeit," Neue Jahrbiicher fur das klassische Allerlum (Leipzig: Teubner, vol. 15, 1905, pp. 276 312; and, V. Nutton, "The chronology ol Galen's early career," The Classical Quarterly, vol. 23, 1973, pp. 158 171.
36. This passage echoes a number of treatments by Foucault of "the inquiry": (1) The 1971- 1972 lectures at the College de France, the first part of which deals with the inquiry and its development in the Middle Ages; see the course summary, "Theories et Institutions penales" Dits et Ecrits, vol. 2, pp. 390 391; "Penal Theories and Institutions," trans. Robert Hurley, Essential Works of Foucault, 1, pp. 17 19; (2) The College de France lectures ol 1972 1973, "The Punitive Society," in which, in the lecture of 28 March 1973, Foucault returns to the constitution of an "inquiry knowledge"; (3) The third lecture (23 May 1973) on "La Verite et les formes jundiques" pp. 581 588; "Truth and Juridical Forms" pp. 44 52. Foucault returns to the process of the colonization of a "truth test" in the form of the event by a "truth-findings" in the lorm ol a body of knowledge in 1975 in "La Maison des lous" Dits et Ecrits, vol. 2, pp. 6 9 6 697.
37. In the second half ol the eighteenth century, since Fnedrich Hoffmann, who still believed in the theory of crises, albeit with reservations about the notion of critical days, died in 1742. See, C. Daremberg, Histoire des sciences medicates, vol. II, p. 929.
38.
This grid, which dates from the organization of administrative health correspondence by the Intendants in order to collect lnlormation on epidemics and endemic diseases, found institutional expression with the creation on 29 April 1776, on Turgot's initiative, of the "Societe Royale de Medecine" responsible for studying epidemics and epizootic diseases, before disappearing in 1794. See, C. Hannaway, "The Societe Royale de Medecine and epi demies in the Ancient Regime," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 46, no. 3, 1972, pp.
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257273. Concerning these inquiries, see, J. Meyer, "Une enquete de 1'Academie de medecine sur les epidemics (1774 1794)" Annales ESC, 21st year, no. 4, August 1966, pp. 729 749; H. Dupin and L. Masse, uUne enquete epidemiologique a peripeties multiple: I'etude de la pellagre," Revue d'epidemiologie, medecine sociale el sanle publique, vol. XIX, no. 8, 1971, pp. 743 76();J. P. Peter, (1) "Une enquete de la Societe Royale de Medecine. Malades et maladies a la fin du xvmc siecle," Annales ESC, 22,ul year, no. 4, July August 1967, pp. 711 751; ( 2 ) "Les mots et les objets de la maladie. Remarques sur les epidemies et la medecine dans la societe Iran^aise de la lin du xvni' siecle," Revue hisloriijue, no. 499, 1971,pp. 13 38;J. P. Desaive, P. Goubert, E. Le Roy Ladurie, Medecins, climals et epidemies a fin du xviii . siecle (Paris: Mouton, 1972). See also the pages devoted to this in M. Foucault, Naissance de la clinicjue, ch. 2, "Une conscience politique," pp. 21 36; Birl/i of the Clinic, ch. 2, "A Political Consciousness," pp. 22 37.
39. On the development of hospital lacilities and the advent ol a medical police, see, G. Rosen, (1) "Hospitals, medical care and social policy in the French Revolution," Bulletin of the Histoty of Medicine, vol. 30, no. I, 1956, pp. 124 I49, reprinted in G. Rosen, From Medical Police to Social Medicine: Essays on the History of Health Care ( N e w York: Science History Publications, 1974) pp. 220 245; (2) A History of Public Health (New York: MD Publications, 1958); ( 3 ) "Mercantilism and health policy in eighteenth century French thought," Medical History, vol. Ill, October 1959, pp. 259 277, reprinted in From Medical Police, pp. 201 219; M. Joeger, (1) "Les enquetes hospitalieres au xviii' siecle," Bulletin de la Societe francaise d'histoire des hopitaux, no. 31,1975, pp. 51 6(); ( 2 ) "La structure hospital lere de la France sous I'Ancien Regime," Annales ESC, 32m year, no. 5, September October 1977, pp. 1025 1051; M. J. Imbault Huart, "L'hopital, centre d'une nouvelle medecine (1780 1820)," in Zusammentrang Festschrift fur Marilene Pulscher, vol. II (Cologne: Wienand, 1984) pp. 581 603. Foucault takes up this question in a number ol places: ( 1) Naissance de la clinique, ch. v, "La lecon des hopitaux," pp. 63 86; Birth oj the Clinic, ch. 5, "The lesson of the Hospitals" pp. 64 87; "La politique de la sante au XVIII1' siecle," in Michel Foucault, Blandine Barret Kriegel, Anne Thalamy, Francois Beguin, and Bruno Fortier, Les Machines a guerir. Aux origines de l'hopital moderne. Dossiers et documents (Paris: Institut de I'Environnement, 1976) pp. 11 21, reprinted in Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 13 27; English translation, "The politics ol health in the eighteenth century," trans. Colin Gordon, Essential Works oj Foucault, 3, pp. 9 0 105; (3) he relers to it in his hrst lecture on the his tory ol medicine in Rio de Janeiro in October 1974: "Crise de la medecine 011 crise de 1'an- timedecine? " Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 50 54, and in the third "L'incorporation de l'hopital dans la technologic moderne," Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 5 0 8 521.
40. See M. Foucault, Naissance de la clinique, ch. vui, "Ouvrez quelques cadavres," pp. 125 149; Birth of the Clinic, ch. 8, "Open Up a Few Corpses," pp. 124 148. E. H. Ackerknecht, La Medecine hospilaliere a Paris (UW-lcfyS) p p . 2 0 9 214.
41. Foucault takes up this point in his second lecture at Rio de Janeiro, "La naissance de la medecine sociale," Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 212-215; English translation "The Birth ol Social Medicine," trans. Robert Hurley, Essential Works of Foucault, 3. See G. Rosen, "Problems in
the application ol statistical knowledge analysis to questions of health (1711 1 8 8 0 ) " Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 29, no. 1, 1955, pp. 27 45; M. Greenwood, Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948).
42. Thus, Georget states as "1bl principle: never direct the minds of the insane towards their delir- ium" in chapter 5, "Traitement de la lolie," of his work: De lafolie. Considerations sur cette mal- adie, p. 280. Leuret states that "one must impose silence on the patient with regard to his delirium, and occupy them with something else" Du traitement moral de lajolie, p. 120. On this "principle of distraction" see above, note 6 to the lecture of 5 December 1973.
43. Recourse to the research of pathological anatomy was recommended by Jean Pierre Falret in the introduction (September 1853) to his Des maladies mentales, p. v: "Against the doc- trines of our teachers, we yielded, like the others, to that anatomical direction of the sci
ence that at that time was thought to be the true basis of medicine ( . . . ) . We quickly convinced ourselves that only pathological anatomy could give the primary cause ol the phenomena observed in the insane. " Thus, research into pathological anatomy was pursued at Charenton and gave rise to various publications: Jean Baptiste Delaye (1789 1879), attached to Esquirol's department, defended his thesis on 20 November 1824, Consideration
? sur une cspke de paralysic qui ajjecte parliculierement les alienes, Medical Thesis, Paris, No. 224 (Paris: Didot, 1824); Louis Florenlin Calmeil (1798-1895), intern in the department of Royer Collard, chief doctor at Charenton from 1805 until his death in 1825, published: De la paralysie consideree chevies alienes. Recherchesfaites dans le service dejeu M. Royer-Collard et de M. Esquirol (Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1826); Antoine Laurent Jesse Bayle, arrived at the same department in 1817 where he pursued anatomical research resulting in his thesis of 1822: Recherches sur les maladies mentales. Recherches sur {'arachnitis chronique, la gastrite, la gas- tro-enterite et la goutte considerees comme causes de {'alienation mentale, Medical Thesis, Paris, no. 147 (Pans: Didot, 1822) as well as his work of 1826: Traite des maladies du cerveau et de ses membranes. See J. E. D. Escjuirol, "Memoire historique et statistique sur la Maison Royale de Charenton" (1835) in Des maladies mentales, vol. II, ? "Ouvertures de corps," pp. 698 700. The results of Jean Pierre Falret's research at Salpetriere were presented on 6 December 1823 at the Athence de Medecine: Inductions tirees de Vouverture du corps des alienes pour servir au diagnostic el au trailement des maladies mentales (Paris: Bibhotheque Medicale, 1824); Eli enne Georget presents the results ol around 3 0 0 ouvertures des corps ol insane persons at the Salpetriere hospital in chapter 5, "Recherches cadavenques. Etudes de l'anatomie pathologique" in his De lajolie, pp. 423 431. A. [de| Foville pursued anatomical research resulting in his thesis: Observations cliniques propres a eclairer certaines questions relatives a lfal- ienation mentale, Medical Thesis, Paris, no. 138 (Paris: Didot Jeune, 1824). Felix Voisin undertook anatomical work lor his, Des causes morales et physiques des maladies mentales, et de quelques autres affections lelles que I'hysterie, le nymphomanie et le satyriasis.
44. C. C. H. Marc, for example, took up the case of the wile ol a journalist ol Selestat--who, in July 1817, killed her fifteen month old child, and cut oil his right thigh, cooked it, and then partly ate it--and analyzed the medico legal report ol Dr. F. D. Reisseisen, "Examen d'un cas extraordinaire d'infanticide" (originally published in German in Jahrbuch der Staatsarlheilkund, J. H. Kopp, ed. , vol. XI, 1817) in his De lajolie consideree dans ses rapports avec les questions medico-judiciaires, vol. II (Pans:J. -B. Bailliere, 1840) pp. 130 146. Etienne Georget, in particular, considers several criminal cases: (1) Examen medical des proces crim- inels de Leger, Feldman, Lecouffe, Jean-Pierre, Papavoine, dans lesquels Valienation mentale a ete alleguee comme moyen de defense, suivi de quelques considerations medico-legales sur la liberte morale (Pans: Migneret, 1825); (2) Nouvelles discussions medico-legales sur la folie ou alienation men- tale, suivies de Vexamen de plusieurs proces criminels dans lesquels celle maladie a ete alleguee comme moyen de defense (Paris: Migneret, 1826). On these medical strategies we can turn to, R. Castel, "Les medecins et les juges," in Michel Foucault, ed. Moi, Pierre Rivihe, ayant egorge ma mere, ma soeur et monfrere. Un cas de parricide au xix1 siecle (Paris: Gallimard, 1973) pp. 315-331; English translation, "The Doctors and Judges," J, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother. . . , trans. F. Jellinek ( N e w York: Pantheon, 1975 and Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984) pp. 250 268. P. Devernoix, Les Alienes et I'expertise medico-legate. Du pouvoir discretionnaire des juges en matiere criminelle, et des inconvenients qui en resultent (Toulouse: C. Dirion, 1905). Michel Foucault returns to these cases in his course, Les Anormaux, lectures ol 29 January and 5 February 1975, pp. 94 100 and pp. 101-126;
Abnormal, pp. 102-104 and 109 134.
45. In a note to chapter 4, "De I'impulsion insolite a une action determinee," section III ol J. Hoffbauer's treatise, Medecine legate relative aux alienes et aux sourds-muets, ou les his appliquees aux desordrcs de {'intelligence, trans. A. M. Chambeyron, with notes by Itard and Esquirol (Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1827), Esquirol gives the following delinition of monoma- nia: "There is a kind of homicidal monomania in which one can observe no intellectual or
moral disorder; the murderer is driven by an irresistible power, by a force he cannot over come, by a blind impulse, by a thoughtless determination, without interest, without motive, without distraction, to an atrocious action" (reprinted in Des maladies mentales, vol. II, p. 804). On the history ol the concept, see, R. Fontanille, Alienation mentale et Criminialite (Historique, expertise medico-legale) (Grenoble: Allier Freres, 1902); P. Dubuisson and A. Vigouroux, Responsibilite penale et Folie. Etude medico-legate (Paris: Alcan, 1911); and A. Fontana, "Les intermittences de la raison," in Moi, Pierre Riviere. . . , pp. 333 350; "The Intermittences of Rationality," /, Pierre Riviere,. . . , pp. 269 288.
46. Thus, C. C. Marc states that "one ol the most serious and delicate functions that can be devolved on the expert in forensic medicine is that of determining whether the mental
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alienation is real or feigned" in "Matenaux pour l'histoire medico-legale de 1'ahenation mentale," Annales d'hygiene publique el de medecine legate, vol. II, 2 part (Paris: Gabon, 1829) p. 353.
Foucault is alluding here to the movements oi institutional criticism which developed alter
the 2nd World War and which denounced an asylum, the medicalized heir to the "hopitaux generaux" of the "great confinement," which had become a pathogenic institution through
the conditions of life it provided for the patients; see the Report presented by Lucien Bonnafe, Louis Le Guillant and Henri Mignont, "Problemes poses par la chronicite sur le plan des institutions psychiatricjues," in XII' congres de Psychiatrie et de Neurologie de langue
francaise, Marseilles, 7-12 September 1964 (Paris: Masson, 1964).
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In Hislnire de lafolie, p. 285 and p. 245, Madness and Civilisation, p. 123 and p. 86, Foucault noted the shiit carried out in eighteenth century medicine, when it is "from the body's lie] uid and solid elements that the secret of disease was sought" rather than from the "animal spirits. " Hermann Boerhaave (1668 1738), integrating the contributions of physics, chemistry and the natural sciences, made illness the result ol an alteration of the balance ol solids and liquids: lnstitittiones medicae, in usus annae exercitationis domesticos digestae (Leyden: Van der Linden, 1708) p. 10, French translation by J. O. de La Mettrie, Institutions de medecine, vol. I (Paris: Huart, 1740). See, C. Daremberg, Histoire des sciences medicates, vol. II, ch. xxvi, pp. 897 903; L. S. King, The Background of Hermann Boerhaave's Doctrines (Boerhaave Lecture, September M1'1, 196yi) (Leyden: University of Leyden publications, 1965).
Fnednch Hoffmann (166O 1742), a doctor at Halle, considered diseases to he the result of alterations of the solid and liquid parts of the body and of their functions, and, in accordance with his mechanistic perspective, he gave a major role to modifications of the tomcity of the fibers and of the mechanics ol the blood How: (1) Fundamenta medicinae ex principiis mechanicis el practicis in usum Philiatrorum succincte proposita . . . jam aucla et emendata, et cetera (Halle: Magdeburgicae, 1703), English translation, Fundamenta Medicinae, trans. L. S. King (London/New York: Macdonald/American Elsevier, 1971) p. 10; (2) Medicina rationalis systemica, in 2 volumes (Halle: Renyeriana, 1718-1720), French translation by J. J. Bruhier (Paris: Brlasson, I738). See C. Daremberg, Histoire, vol. II, pp. 905-952; K. E. Rothschuh, "Studien zu Friedrich Hoffmann (1660-1742)" Studhoffs Archiv fur Geschichte der Medizjn, vol. 6 0 , 1976, pp. 163 193 and pp. 235 270. On this eighteenth century med icine, see, L. S. King (1) The Medical World of the Eighteenth Century (Chicago: University ol Chicago Press, 1958), and (2) "Medical theory and practice at the beginning of the eigh teenth century," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 46, no. 1, 1972, pp. 1 15.
28. Hippocrates, Epidemies, I, 3 section, ? 12 in CEuvres completes, vol. II (1840), pp. 679 681; English translation, Epidemics, Book 1, (iii), 26, in G. E. R. Lloyd, ed. Hippocratic Writings, trans. J. Chadwick and others (Harmondsworth and New York: Penguin, 1978), p. 101: "Fevers attended by paroxysms at even numbers of days, reach their crisis also in an even number; il the paroxysms are on odd days, so is the crisis. The hrst period of [lever] in those maladies which reach the crisis in an even number ol days is 4, 6, 8, 10, 14, 20, 24, 30, 40, 60, 80 or 120 days. (. . . ). It must be noted that il a crisis occurs on any other day than those mentioned, there will be a relapse and also it may prove a latal sign. One must pay attention to these days which have been specified in the course of a particular fever and realize that on them a crisis may take place leading to recovery or death, to improvement or to deterioration. "
29. On the determination ol lucky or ill lated days (or consulting the oracle, see P. Amandry, La Mantique appollinienne a Delphes. Essaisur lefontionnemenl de Coracle (Paris: E. de Boccard, 1940) ch. vn, "Frequence des consultations" pp. 81 85. On Greek "mantictsm" in general, derived from the verb (xavTeuRcrOou meaning "to prophecy," to conjecture according to ora- cles, to act as a seer ((xavrts"), the basic book, although old, ts still that ol A. Bouche Leclercq, Histoire de la divination dans VAntiquile, in 4 volumes (Paris: Leroux, 1879 1882). Also, W. R. Halliday, Greek Divination: A Study of its Methods and Principles (London: Macmillan, 1913);J. Defradas, "La divination en Grece" in A. Caquot and M. Lcibovici, eds. La Divination, vol. I (Paris: Presses universitaires de France, 1968) pp. 157 195; R. Flaceliere, Devins et Oracles grecs; and ed.
J. P. Vernant, Divination et Rationalite (Paris: Le Seuil, I974).
30. Hippocrates "considers an important part ol the art of medicine" to be the ability "to
observe the order of the critical days and to extract the elements ol prognosis from it. When we know these things, we know too when and how to give nourishment to the patient" Hippocrates, Epidemies, III, 3ul section, ? 16, in CEuvres completes, vol. Ill; English translation, Hippocrates, Epidemics, 3, trans. W. H. S. Jones, Hippocrates, vol. I, Loeb Classical Library (Cambridge, Mass: Harvard University Press, 1923).
31. Hippocrates, Pronostic, ? 1: "The best doctor seems to me to be one who can know in advance . . . He will treat best those diseases whose future course he can loresee with the help of the present condition" CEuvres completes, vol. II, p. 111; Prognosis ? 1, in Hippocratic Writings: "It seems to be highly desirable that a physician should pay much attention to
? prognosis. . . . he will be better able to effect a cure if he can loretell, trom the present
symptoms, the future course of the disease. " p. 170.
}2. In Hippocrates's own terms, the doctor's task is to "combat (avrayoviaaBai) each of the
accidents through his art. " Or again, "if we know the cause of the disease, we will be in a position to administer what is useful to the body, starting from contraries to counter (SK TOV evavTtov ermao[tEVo<;) the disease" Des Vents, I, in Guvres completes, vol. VI, p. 93 (translation amended by J. L. |; English translation, Airs, I, in Hippocrates, vol. I, Locb Classical Library (1923).
33. Taken from juridical language, the term krisis means "judgment," "decision," before desig nating in medicine the crucial moment at which "the disease judges | KpiveTcu] lor death
or life "Des Affections internes,21 220, 9, in GLuvres completes, vol. VII, p. 217; "Internal Affections," trans. Paul Potter, Hippocrates, vol. VI, Loeb Classical Library (1988). Or again there is this expression in Epidemies, I, 2IK section, ? 4: "In some ( . . . ) the illness is decided by a crisis" in GLuvres completes, vol. II, p. 627; EpiJemies, Book One, (11), ? 8, p. 92. As for the doctor, he is judged on his sense of opportunity and his interventions; see, Des maladies, I, 5. pp. 147 151; Diseases, I, trans. Paul Potter, Hippocrates, vol. V, Loeb Classical Library (1988).
34. See the medical scenes in the plays by Mohere (1622 1673): (1) VAmour medecin (performed
on 14 September, 1665), Act II, scene 2, in which four doctors are involved, and scenes 3-4 of
the consultation, in Guvres completes, ed. M. Rat (Paris: Galhmard, 1947) vol. II, pp. 14 25; (2) Monsieur de Pourceaugnac ( 6 October 1669) in Act I, scenes 7 8, ol which, two doctors and an apothecary are involved, Guvres completes, vol. II, pp. 141-120; and (3) Le Malade imaginaire (10 February 1673), posthumous work ( 1682), Act II, scenes 5 6, and Act III, scene 5, Guvres com- pletes, vol. II , pp. 845-857 and pp. 871 873. See, F. Millepierres, La Vie quotidienne des medecins au temps de Moliere (Paris: Hachette, 1964).
}5. This refers to an episode that took place during Galen's (b. Peigamum 129 A. D. ) first stay in Rome from the autumn of 162 until the summer ol 166, before coming back to settle there from 169 until his death around 200. Sec, De Praecognitione ? 1$ in Opera Omnia, vol. XIV, ed. and Latin trans. C. G. Kiihn (Lipsiae: in officina, C! Cnoblochii, 1827) pp. 666 668; English translation, On Prognosis: Corpus Medicomm Graecorum, V, 8, 1, trans. Vivian Hutton (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1979) pp. 135-137. On Galen's relations with the Roman medical world, see J. Walsh, "Galen clashes with the medical sects at Rome (163 A. D. )," Medical Life, vol. 35,1928, pp. 408-444. On his practice, see,J. Ilberg, "Aus Galens Praxis. Ein Kulturbild aus der Kaiserzeit," Neue Jahrbiicher fur das klassische Allerlum (Leipzig: Teubner, vol. 15, 1905, pp. 276 312; and, V. Nutton, "The chronology ol Galen's early career," The Classical Quarterly, vol. 23, 1973, pp. 158 171.
36. This passage echoes a number of treatments by Foucault of "the inquiry": (1) The 1971- 1972 lectures at the College de France, the first part of which deals with the inquiry and its development in the Middle Ages; see the course summary, "Theories et Institutions penales" Dits et Ecrits, vol. 2, pp. 390 391; "Penal Theories and Institutions," trans. Robert Hurley, Essential Works of Foucault, 1, pp. 17 19; (2) The College de France lectures ol 1972 1973, "The Punitive Society," in which, in the lecture of 28 March 1973, Foucault returns to the constitution of an "inquiry knowledge"; (3) The third lecture (23 May 1973) on "La Verite et les formes jundiques" pp. 581 588; "Truth and Juridical Forms" pp. 44 52. Foucault returns to the process of the colonization of a "truth test" in the form of the event by a "truth-findings" in the lorm ol a body of knowledge in 1975 in "La Maison des lous" Dits et Ecrits, vol. 2, pp. 6 9 6 697.
37. In the second half ol the eighteenth century, since Fnedrich Hoffmann, who still believed in the theory of crises, albeit with reservations about the notion of critical days, died in 1742. See, C. Daremberg, Histoire des sciences medicates, vol. II, p. 929.
38.
This grid, which dates from the organization of administrative health correspondence by the Intendants in order to collect lnlormation on epidemics and endemic diseases, found institutional expression with the creation on 29 April 1776, on Turgot's initiative, of the "Societe Royale de Medecine" responsible for studying epidemics and epizootic diseases, before disappearing in 1794. See, C. Hannaway, "The Societe Royale de Medecine and epi demies in the Ancient Regime," Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 46, no. 3, 1972, pp.
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257273. Concerning these inquiries, see, J. Meyer, "Une enquete de 1'Academie de medecine sur les epidemics (1774 1794)" Annales ESC, 21st year, no. 4, August 1966, pp. 729 749; H. Dupin and L. Masse, uUne enquete epidemiologique a peripeties multiple: I'etude de la pellagre," Revue d'epidemiologie, medecine sociale el sanle publique, vol. XIX, no. 8, 1971, pp. 743 76();J. P. Peter, (1) "Une enquete de la Societe Royale de Medecine. Malades et maladies a la fin du xvmc siecle," Annales ESC, 22,ul year, no. 4, July August 1967, pp. 711 751; ( 2 ) "Les mots et les objets de la maladie. Remarques sur les epidemies et la medecine dans la societe Iran^aise de la lin du xvni' siecle," Revue hisloriijue, no. 499, 1971,pp. 13 38;J. P. Desaive, P. Goubert, E. Le Roy Ladurie, Medecins, climals et epidemies a fin du xviii . siecle (Paris: Mouton, 1972). See also the pages devoted to this in M. Foucault, Naissance de la clinicjue, ch. 2, "Une conscience politique," pp. 21 36; Birl/i of the Clinic, ch. 2, "A Political Consciousness," pp. 22 37.
39. On the development of hospital lacilities and the advent ol a medical police, see, G. Rosen, (1) "Hospitals, medical care and social policy in the French Revolution," Bulletin of the Histoty of Medicine, vol. 30, no. I, 1956, pp. 124 I49, reprinted in G. Rosen, From Medical Police to Social Medicine: Essays on the History of Health Care ( N e w York: Science History Publications, 1974) pp. 220 245; (2) A History of Public Health (New York: MD Publications, 1958); ( 3 ) "Mercantilism and health policy in eighteenth century French thought," Medical History, vol. Ill, October 1959, pp. 259 277, reprinted in From Medical Police, pp. 201 219; M. Joeger, (1) "Les enquetes hospitalieres au xviii' siecle," Bulletin de la Societe francaise d'histoire des hopitaux, no. 31,1975, pp. 51 6(); ( 2 ) "La structure hospital lere de la France sous I'Ancien Regime," Annales ESC, 32m year, no. 5, September October 1977, pp. 1025 1051; M. J. Imbault Huart, "L'hopital, centre d'une nouvelle medecine (1780 1820)," in Zusammentrang Festschrift fur Marilene Pulscher, vol. II (Cologne: Wienand, 1984) pp. 581 603. Foucault takes up this question in a number ol places: ( 1) Naissance de la clinique, ch. v, "La lecon des hopitaux," pp. 63 86; Birth oj the Clinic, ch. 5, "The lesson of the Hospitals" pp. 64 87; "La politique de la sante au XVIII1' siecle," in Michel Foucault, Blandine Barret Kriegel, Anne Thalamy, Francois Beguin, and Bruno Fortier, Les Machines a guerir. Aux origines de l'hopital moderne. Dossiers et documents (Paris: Institut de I'Environnement, 1976) pp. 11 21, reprinted in Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 13 27; English translation, "The politics ol health in the eighteenth century," trans. Colin Gordon, Essential Works oj Foucault, 3, pp. 9 0 105; (3) he relers to it in his hrst lecture on the his tory ol medicine in Rio de Janeiro in October 1974: "Crise de la medecine 011 crise de 1'an- timedecine? " Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 50 54, and in the third "L'incorporation de l'hopital dans la technologic moderne," Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 5 0 8 521.
40. See M. Foucault, Naissance de la clinique, ch. vui, "Ouvrez quelques cadavres," pp. 125 149; Birth of the Clinic, ch. 8, "Open Up a Few Corpses," pp. 124 148. E. H. Ackerknecht, La Medecine hospilaliere a Paris (UW-lcfyS) p p . 2 0 9 214.
41. Foucault takes up this point in his second lecture at Rio de Janeiro, "La naissance de la medecine sociale," Dits et Ecrits, vol. 3, pp. 212-215; English translation "The Birth ol Social Medicine," trans. Robert Hurley, Essential Works of Foucault, 3. See G. Rosen, "Problems in
the application ol statistical knowledge analysis to questions of health (1711 1 8 8 0 ) " Bulletin of the History of Medicine, vol. 29, no. 1, 1955, pp. 27 45; M. Greenwood, Medical Statistics from Graunt to Farr (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1948).
42. Thus, Georget states as "1bl principle: never direct the minds of the insane towards their delir- ium" in chapter 5, "Traitement de la lolie," of his work: De lafolie. Considerations sur cette mal- adie, p. 280. Leuret states that "one must impose silence on the patient with regard to his delirium, and occupy them with something else" Du traitement moral de lajolie, p. 120. On this "principle of distraction" see above, note 6 to the lecture of 5 December 1973.
43. Recourse to the research of pathological anatomy was recommended by Jean Pierre Falret in the introduction (September 1853) to his Des maladies mentales, p. v: "Against the doc- trines of our teachers, we yielded, like the others, to that anatomical direction of the sci
ence that at that time was thought to be the true basis of medicine ( . . . ) . We quickly convinced ourselves that only pathological anatomy could give the primary cause ol the phenomena observed in the insane. " Thus, research into pathological anatomy was pursued at Charenton and gave rise to various publications: Jean Baptiste Delaye (1789 1879), attached to Esquirol's department, defended his thesis on 20 November 1824, Consideration
? sur une cspke de paralysic qui ajjecte parliculierement les alienes, Medical Thesis, Paris, No. 224 (Paris: Didot, 1824); Louis Florenlin Calmeil (1798-1895), intern in the department of Royer Collard, chief doctor at Charenton from 1805 until his death in 1825, published: De la paralysie consideree chevies alienes. Recherchesfaites dans le service dejeu M. Royer-Collard et de M. Esquirol (Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1826); Antoine Laurent Jesse Bayle, arrived at the same department in 1817 where he pursued anatomical research resulting in his thesis of 1822: Recherches sur les maladies mentales. Recherches sur {'arachnitis chronique, la gastrite, la gas- tro-enterite et la goutte considerees comme causes de {'alienation mentale, Medical Thesis, Paris, no. 147 (Pans: Didot, 1822) as well as his work of 1826: Traite des maladies du cerveau et de ses membranes. See J. E. D. Escjuirol, "Memoire historique et statistique sur la Maison Royale de Charenton" (1835) in Des maladies mentales, vol. II, ? "Ouvertures de corps," pp. 698 700. The results of Jean Pierre Falret's research at Salpetriere were presented on 6 December 1823 at the Athence de Medecine: Inductions tirees de Vouverture du corps des alienes pour servir au diagnostic el au trailement des maladies mentales (Paris: Bibhotheque Medicale, 1824); Eli enne Georget presents the results ol around 3 0 0 ouvertures des corps ol insane persons at the Salpetriere hospital in chapter 5, "Recherches cadavenques. Etudes de l'anatomie pathologique" in his De lajolie, pp. 423 431. A. [de| Foville pursued anatomical research resulting in his thesis: Observations cliniques propres a eclairer certaines questions relatives a lfal- ienation mentale, Medical Thesis, Paris, no. 138 (Paris: Didot Jeune, 1824). Felix Voisin undertook anatomical work lor his, Des causes morales et physiques des maladies mentales, et de quelques autres affections lelles que I'hysterie, le nymphomanie et le satyriasis.
44. C. C. H. Marc, for example, took up the case of the wile ol a journalist ol Selestat--who, in July 1817, killed her fifteen month old child, and cut oil his right thigh, cooked it, and then partly ate it--and analyzed the medico legal report ol Dr. F. D. Reisseisen, "Examen d'un cas extraordinaire d'infanticide" (originally published in German in Jahrbuch der Staatsarlheilkund, J. H. Kopp, ed. , vol. XI, 1817) in his De lajolie consideree dans ses rapports avec les questions medico-judiciaires, vol. II (Pans:J. -B. Bailliere, 1840) pp. 130 146. Etienne Georget, in particular, considers several criminal cases: (1) Examen medical des proces crim- inels de Leger, Feldman, Lecouffe, Jean-Pierre, Papavoine, dans lesquels Valienation mentale a ete alleguee comme moyen de defense, suivi de quelques considerations medico-legales sur la liberte morale (Pans: Migneret, 1825); (2) Nouvelles discussions medico-legales sur la folie ou alienation men- tale, suivies de Vexamen de plusieurs proces criminels dans lesquels celle maladie a ete alleguee comme moyen de defense (Paris: Migneret, 1826). On these medical strategies we can turn to, R. Castel, "Les medecins et les juges," in Michel Foucault, ed. Moi, Pierre Rivihe, ayant egorge ma mere, ma soeur et monfrere. Un cas de parricide au xix1 siecle (Paris: Gallimard, 1973) pp. 315-331; English translation, "The Doctors and Judges," J, Pierre Riviere, having slaughtered my mother, my sister and my brother. . . , trans. F. Jellinek ( N e w York: Pantheon, 1975 and Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1984) pp. 250 268. P. Devernoix, Les Alienes et I'expertise medico-legate. Du pouvoir discretionnaire des juges en matiere criminelle, et des inconvenients qui en resultent (Toulouse: C. Dirion, 1905). Michel Foucault returns to these cases in his course, Les Anormaux, lectures ol 29 January and 5 February 1975, pp. 94 100 and pp. 101-126;
Abnormal, pp. 102-104 and 109 134.
45. In a note to chapter 4, "De I'impulsion insolite a une action determinee," section III ol J. Hoffbauer's treatise, Medecine legate relative aux alienes et aux sourds-muets, ou les his appliquees aux desordrcs de {'intelligence, trans. A. M. Chambeyron, with notes by Itard and Esquirol (Paris: J. B. Bailliere, 1827), Esquirol gives the following delinition of monoma- nia: "There is a kind of homicidal monomania in which one can observe no intellectual or
moral disorder; the murderer is driven by an irresistible power, by a force he cannot over come, by a blind impulse, by a thoughtless determination, without interest, without motive, without distraction, to an atrocious action" (reprinted in Des maladies mentales, vol. II, p. 804). On the history ol the concept, see, R. Fontanille, Alienation mentale et Criminialite (Historique, expertise medico-legale) (Grenoble: Allier Freres, 1902); P. Dubuisson and A. Vigouroux, Responsibilite penale et Folie. Etude medico-legate (Paris: Alcan, 1911); and A. Fontana, "Les intermittences de la raison," in Moi, Pierre Riviere. . . , pp. 333 350; "The Intermittences of Rationality," /, Pierre Riviere,. . . , pp. 269 288.
46. Thus, C. C. Marc states that "one ol the most serious and delicate functions that can be devolved on the expert in forensic medicine is that of determining whether the mental
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alienation is real or feigned" in "Matenaux pour l'histoire medico-legale de 1'ahenation mentale," Annales d'hygiene publique el de medecine legate, vol. II, 2 part (Paris: Gabon, 1829) p. 353.
Foucault is alluding here to the movements oi institutional criticism which developed alter
the 2nd World War and which denounced an asylum, the medicalized heir to the "hopitaux generaux" of the "great confinement," which had become a pathogenic institution through
the conditions of life it provided for the patients; see the Report presented by Lucien Bonnafe, Louis Le Guillant and Henri Mignont, "Problemes poses par la chronicite sur le plan des institutions psychiatricjues," in XII' congres de Psychiatrie et de Neurologie de langue
francaise, Marseilles, 7-12 September 1964 (Paris: Masson, 1964).
