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Quotes About Disease

In terms of medicine, I've generally been pretty interested in public health issues as they relate to sub-Saharan Africa on a broad scale - HIV/AIDS, malaria etc.
~ Uzodinma Iweala
I spent a lot of time researching dementia, read papers on the subject, and also found a lot of dementia diaries on the Internet which were a great help in getting an insight into the disease.
~ Emma Healey
There are also "good" viruses that help protect the body against 'bad" viruses, and virotherapies like RIGVIR can help bolster the former when the latter take over and cause problems.
~ Unknown
Wiener pox," said Danny gravely, tapping his snout. "Kills thousands every year. The government hushes it up.
~ Unknown
For thousands of years people from all corners of the globe have used herbs and plants to cure or prevent disease-PLANTS AND HERBS THAT HEAL ,Author, V J SMITH BARNES AND NOBLE NOOK BOOK
~ Unknown
On the wisdom with which we bring science to bear in the war against disease, in the creation of new industries, and in the strengthening of our Armed Forces depends in large measure our future as a nation.
~ Vannevar Bush
Shad Darshan And finally, Buddhism. Buddha says everything is going to end. Do not worry about disease, because disease is going to end. H ave patience. Buddhist philosophy says there is suffering and a simple way to go beyond suffering is to have patience, to give time for samprapti to eradicate itself. That is what Buddhism has given to Ayurveda.
~ Unknown
Now it is believed that phytonutrients are actually weak toxins that stimulate the body's endogenous antioxidants through a stress reaction, much as other positive stressors such as exercise strengthen various systems of the body. In any case, we know that men and women who consume high levels of fruits exhibit higher antioxidant capacities, are less prone to chronic diseases, and live longer.
~ Velopress
The War has little enough to its credit, but it did break the tradition that venereal disease or sexual brutality in a husband was amply compensated by an elegant bank-balance.
~ Vera Brittain
I will explain in this book that vaccines are given not to protect individuals against disease but to protect communities against financial loss.)
~ Unknown
you are receiving treatment for an existing disease and you develop new symptoms then, until proved otherwise, you should assume that the new symptoms are caused by the treatment you are receiving. 1
~ Unknown
Second, there are vaccines which contain killed micro-organisms. These vaccines may contain an intact (but dead) organism or a sample pack of specific antigens.
~ Unknown
still can't believe that). Babies just eight-weeks-old have a single jab against diphtheria, tetanus, pertussis, haemophilus influenzae type b and polio and another against pneumococcal disease. Then, as if that were not enough, babies of three
~ Unknown
La humanidad, que desprecia la salud mientras la posee, guarda su fe más ciega para los que la consuelan y entretienen en la gran cobardía de la dolencia
~ Vicente Blasco Ibáñez
I can get no remedy against this consumption of the purse: borrowing only lingers and lingers it out, but the disease is incurable.
~ William Shakespeare
Give me a chance to create a fever and I will cure any disease.
~ Parmenides
Equally appalling was the death rate from such bacterial infections; at least 40 percent of amputees died from so-called hospital disease. In army hospitals that number approached 70 percent.
~ Unknown
ever mention the opportunistic diseases that actually felled the victims. They never mention that these diseases galloped in through the open gate of a collapsed immune system – collapsed because of Aids.
~ Unknown
Fight it, and the bad memories will consume you, like all diseases. I have seen it happen . .
~ Peter Lerangis
The white man, as one Indian said, "was in the Black Hills just like maggots";10 wasicu, or "the greedy one" (literally, "he-who-takes-the-fat"),11 was the term the Lakota used to describe the miners, and it later became their term for whites in general. "The love of possessions is a disease with them," said Sitting Bull, who was never behindhand in his contempt.
~ Peter Matthiessen
Whatever the arthritis had done to the rest of her body, it hadn't progressed as far as her tongue.
~ Peter Robinson
Why should people be dying from an invariably fatal disease while a potential cure is tested on animals who do not normally develop AIDS anyway? The
~ Peter Singer
Drug misuse is not a disease, it is a decision, like the decision to step out in front of a moving car. You would call that not a disease but an error of judgment.
~ Unknown
I often found it helpful to think of central Africa in the mid-1990s as comparable to late medieval Europe - plagued by serial wars of tribe and religion, corrupt despots, predatory elites and a superstitious peasantry, festering with disease, stagnating in poverty, and laden with promise.
~ Philip Gourevitch