Quotes About Disease

after three years of war, a death from disease, even if it befell a public figure, had ceased being an event worth talking about.

Bats carry rabies, like all mammals. But less than 1 percent of bats contract the disease, and when they do, they quickly die.

that no emotion can continue long in intensity, in the consciousness of a human being. It runs a course, like a disease. Mercifully. Recuperation begins its gentle work, once facts are comprehended and accepted.

Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.

Health is infinite and expansive in mode, and reaches out to be filled with the fullness of the world; whereas disease is finite and reductive in mode, and endeavors to reduce the world to itself.

Life is a fatal complaint, and an eminently contagious one.

Where there is ignorance, sickness will thrive.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching. Our splendid physique as a people is entirely due to our national stupidity.

Thinking is the most unhealthy thing in the world, and people die of it just as they die of any other disease. Fortunately, in England at any rate, thought is not catching.

Sure, it's going to kill a lot of people, but they may be dying of something else anyway.

'Tis not always in a physician's power to cure the sick; at times the disease is stronger than trained art.

I'm telling you, the ingenuity of alcoholics is something else. If only it could be put to some kind of good use. I mean, if you said to an alcoholic, 'Look, the only way for you to get another drink is to cure cancer,' the disease would be history in five seconds.

We've established the most enormous medical entity ever conceived... and people are sicker than ever. We cure nothing! We heal nothing!

that Jeremy was suffering from meningococcemia. I was haunted by something I had read about the infection: "The capacity of the meningococcus to kill a perfectly healthy individual within a few hours remains one of the most awesome characteristics of this disease.

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster.

Rabies has a lot in Common with vampirism." said Adam

The court proceeding was short. Boyle and the defense team decided to enter pleas of not guilty and not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect3

They're here,' holly said in a whisper. 'I can feel it.' She was trembling all over. The men turned to look. Carmen slowly shook her head, though her heart was quickening. She took the fruit from Holly and tossed it into the bushes. 'No, Holly. It's Impossible.' She was on the point of explaining--your children cannot have escaped the disease, they were the cause--when it came to her, the idea rushing into focus like an oncoming truck: they are immune.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.

Wilem looked at me 'Why are you smiling?' "I'm relieved",I said honestly." I was worried I had given myself cadmium poisoning, or had a mysterious disease.This is just someone trying to kill me.

He is overcome with the disease of love, the drunkenness of generations past. When are we ourselves, he wonders, trudging through the snow-covered banks, his coat illuminated by moon-light.

Subjects were given vitamin E, beta-carotene, both, or neither. The results were clear: those taking vitamins and supplements were more likely to die from lung cancer or heart disease than those who didn't take them—the opposite of what researchers had anticipated.

Like Mendelsohn, Stewart believed the decline in pertussis in the United Kingdom had nothing to do with the vaccine; it was simply a matter of improved sanitation.

That's the problem with vaccines. When they work, absolutely nothing happens. Nothing. Parents go on with their lives, not once thinking that their child was saved from meningitis caused by Hib or from liver cancer caused by hepatitis B or from fatal pneumonia caused by pneumococcus or from paralysis caused by polio. We live in a state of blissful denial.