The two dreams are isomorphic: the first expressing in a very positive way the strict, militant, dogmatic medicalization of' society, by way of a quasi religious conversion, and the establishment of' a therapeutic clergy; the second expressing the same medicalization, but in a triumphant, negative way, that is to say, the volatilization of disease in a corrected, organized, and ceaselessly supervised environment, in which medicine itself would finally disappear, together with its object and its raison d'etre.