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Quotes About Disease

Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
The so-called symptoms of disease are manifestations of an inherent principle of the organism to restore healthy function and to resist offending agents and influences.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
Substances that are injurious to the well are equally (or more so) injurious to the sick.
~ Herbert M. Shelton
It is not easy to talk about a condition once dismissed as 'the career women's disease'. But women will continue to suffer until we realise the cost of ignoring it
~ Hilary Mantel
Old people have fewer diseases than the young, but their diseases never leave them.
~ Hippocrates
Natural forces within us are the true healers of disease.
~ Hippocrates
For extreme diseases extreme strictness of treatment is most efficacious.
~ Hippocrates
It is far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.
~ Hippocrates
All parts of the body which have a function, if used in moderation and exercised in labors in which each is accustomed, become thereby healthy, well developed and age more slowly, but if unused they become liable to disease, defective in growth and age quickly.
~ Hippocrates
Disease [is] not an entity, but a fluctuating condition of the patient's body, a battle between the substance of disease and the natural self-healing tendency of the body.
~ Hippocrates
In whatever disease sleep is laborious, it is a deadly symptom; but if sleep does good, it is not deadly.
~ Hippocrates
What remains in diseases after the crisis is apt to produce relapses.
~ Hippocrates
In acute diseases it is not quite safe to prognosticate either death or recovery.
~ Hippocrates
And in this way truly you may see that it is not a god that injures the body, but disease.
~ Hippocrates
The whole world around us has the disease which we've feared for so long. We can only pray that the natural goodness of men will fight off the plague before it spreads too far.
~ Unknown
En los últimos 100 años la medicina ha hecho grandes avances. Irónicamente el número de personas que enferman sigue en aumento. Si la medicina ha progresado de verdad, ¿por qué no hay menos enfermos?
~ Unknown
LA ENZIMA PRODIGIOSA – LA CLAVE PARA EL CÓDIGO DE LA VIDA Tu cuerpo tiene la gran capacidad milagrosa de curarse a sí mismo. De hecho, tu cuerpo es el único sistema curativo que puede restablecer tu equilibrio cuando te ataca una enfermedad. La medicina puede ayudar a tu cuerpo en caso de emergencia y la cirugía puede ser necesaria en determinadas circunstancias, pero sólo tu cuerpo tiene la capacidad de curarse.
~ Unknown
Los medicamentos no pueden fundamentalmente curar enfermedades. El único camino esencial para curar cualquier enfermedad estriba en nuestro estilo de vida diario.
~ Unknown
Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser también la cura.
~ Holly Black
Si eres la enfermedad, supongo que tampoco puedes ser la cura
~ Holly Black
Si tú eres la enfermedad, supongo que no puedes ser la cura al mismo tiempo.
~ Holly Black
Unlike other fields of medicine, Szasz claimed, psychiatry created new criteria for diagnosis of disease: alteration of bodily function instead of bodily form. Now doctors only need to observe behavior to diagnose, not find evidence of lesions or viruses. Therefore, in psychiatry, diseases are invented, not discovered
~ Unknown
It is hard to believe that the declaration of antifascism is nowadays any more a mark of sufficient grace in a writer than a declaration against disease would be in a physician or a declaration against accidents would be in a locomotive engineer. The admirable intention in itself is not enough and criticism begins and does not end when the intention is declared.
~ Lionel Trilling
I think I'm in love with her. Either that, or I have a stomach disease with a side effect of uncontrollable sweating.
~ Lisa Kleypas