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MATTERS OF THE HEART Frontispiece:‘Heartinhermouth’. Source: MarionKaplan. Idrewverynearhim,myHeartinmyMouthforfear. CharlesdeFieuxMouhy,TheFortunateCountryMaid (London:C.Hitch,1758),136 MATTERS OF THE HEART HISTORY, MEDICINE, AND EMOTION FAY BOUND ALBERTI 1 1 GreatClarendonStreet,Oxfordox26dp OxfordUniversityPressisadepartmentoftheUniversityofOxford. ItfurtherstheUniversity’sobjectiveofexcellenceinresearch,scholarship, andeducationbypublishingworldwidein Oxford NewYork Auckland CapeTown DaresSalaam HongKong Karachi KualaLumpur Madrid Melbourne MexicoCity Nairobi NewDelhi Shanghai Taipei Toronto Withofficesin Argentina Austria Brazil Chile CzechRepublic France Greece Guatemala Hungary Italy Japan Poland Portugal Singapore SouthKorea Switzerland Thailand Turkey Ukraine Vietnam OxfordisaregisteredtrademarkofOxfordUniversityPress intheUKandincertainothercountries PublishedintheUnitedStates byOxfordUniversityPressInc.,NewYork ©FayBoundAlberti2010 Themoralrightsoftheauthorhavebeenasserted DatabaserightOxfordUniversityPress(maker) Firstpublished2010 Allrightsreserved.Nopartofthispublicationmaybereproduced, storedinaretrievalsystem,ortransmitted,inanyformorbyanymeans, withoutthepriorpermissioninwritingofOxfordUniversityPress, orasexpresslypermittedbylaw,orundertermsagreedwiththeappropriate reprographicsrightsorganization.Enquiriesconcerningreproduction outsidethescopeoftheaboveshouldbesenttotheRightsDepartment, OxfordUniversityPress,attheaddressabove Youmustnotcirculatethisbookinanyotherbindingorcover andyoumustimposethesameconditiononanyacquirer BritishLibraryCataloguinginPublicationData Dataavailable LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Alberti,FayBound,1971– Mattersoftheheart:history,medicine,andemotion/FayBoundAlberti. p.cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. ISBN978–0–19–954097–6(hbk.:alk.paper)1. Heart—Diseases—Social aspects—History.2. Heart—Anatomy.3. Heart—Symbolicaspects.4. Emotions. 5. Mindandbody.I. Title. RC682.A4252009 616.1(cid:2)2—dc22 TypesetbyLaserwordsPrivateLimited,Chennai,India PrintedinGreatBritain onacid-freepaperby MPGBooksGroup,BodminandKing’sLynn ISBN978–0–19–954097–6 1 3 5 7 9 10 8 6 4 2 ForMillieBoundandJacobGeorgeAlberti This page intentionally left blank Acknowledgements A Wellcome Trust Project Grant made possible the research and writing of this book. I gratefully acknowledge the Trust’s financial support,andthediligenceofthegrantsadministrationteam,especially Tony Woods. I am also grateful to those who have commented on theideasandthemesexpressedinthisbook.Anenormousintellectual debtisowedtoMarkJenner,whosupervisedmyMastersandDoctoral workatYork.Otherintellectualdebtsinclude,attheWellcomeTrust CentreatUCL,RhodriHayward,ChristopherLawrence,andRoger Cooter, whose astute criticism was crucial to the development of this monograph. Hal Cook and Anne Hardy have been generous in their time and support, as ever. At the University of Lancaster, I benefited from the expertise of Paolo Palladino and Thomas Dixon, and at Manchester University, from thatof John Pickstone and Mick Worboys. In the medical sphere, George Alberti and Martin Cowie have offered insightful commentary at various stages, both about medical practiceandabouttherelationshipbetweenpatientsandpractitioners. In that which is more commonly accepted as a realm of the imagi- nation, I am grateful for the existence of Louisa Young’s enchanting Book of the Heart, and to Louisa for sharing her own enthusiasm on thesubjectwhenwecollaboratedontheWellcomeTrust’sexhibition and book on the heart in 2006. James Peto and Emily Jo Sargent at the Wellcome Trustwere also a pleasure to work with. I am grateful toOtnielDrorforsharingwithmehisinsightsintotwentieth-century medicalresearch,andtoAlanChampion,whohasworkedextensively on the history of Ventnor. I am also appreciative of the support and assistance of the librarians at the Wellcome Library and the British Library. InresearchingMattersoftheHeart,Ihavespentmuchtimethinking about the relationship between mind and matter, and between the body,thesoul,andthebrain,intheoryandpractice.Samhaslistened viii acknowledgements to and shared in many such conversations, and been a generous and scrupulous proofreader. He has also offered challenging scrutiny at many points, especially into the history of pathological bodies. I am very grateful for his help, and for that of my family and friends more generally. Paddy, Nikki, Steve, Lesley, and Matt have each sustained me with babysitting, noodles, or companionship during the times whenIthoughtthattheheartcouldnot,afterall,‘goon’. ‘Theheart’assymbolicentity,asorganoftheself,isfickle,random, and apparently uncontrollable. Yet ‘the heart’ as object is circum- scribed, controllable—even replaceable. This apparent contradiction still lies at the heart of the organ, and of this book. Its function as a simile, or as metaphor, remains unrivalled. It is, therefore, to the rulers of my own heart that this book is dedicated: to my children Millie and Jacob, whose own heartbeats I have wondered at, fretted over,andbeengratefulformanymoretimesthanIcanexpress. Contents ListofFigures xi Introduction:TheHeartoftheMatter 1 1. HumourstoHormones:EmotionandtheHeartinHistory 16 2. Hunter’sHeart:PathologicalAnatomyandtheScience of Disease 41 3. KnowingtheHeart:FromMorbidAnatomytoNew Technologies 61 4. AnginaPectoris andtheArnoldFamily 90 5. ‘HeartLatham’andNineteenth-CenturyMedicalPractice 103 6. TheHeartofHarrietMartineau 120 7. EmotionsandtheBrain:RethinkingtheMind-Body Relationship 140 Conclusion:TheMatteroftheHeart 157 Notes 169 IndicativeBibliography 213 Index 223

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