Unless we put medical freedom into the Constitution the time will come when medicine will organize itself into an undercover dictatorship. To restrict the art of healing to doctors and deny equal privileges to others will constitute the Bastille of medical science. All such laws are un-American and despotic.

As an Enlightenment intellectual he was committed to organizing all medical knowledge around explanatory theories rather than rely on empirical methods. December 24 1745] – April 19 1813) was a Founding Father of the United States. He signed the Declaration of Independence and was a leader in Pennsylvania's ratification the Constitution in 1788.