Quotes About Disease

Artistic temperament is the disease that afflicts amateurs.

The more I work with the body, keeping my assumptions in a temporary state of reservation, the more I appreciate and sympathize with a given disease. The body no longer appears as a sick or irrational demon, but as a process with its own inner logic and wisdom.

Most indigenous cultures also have elaborate theories about health and disease, seamlessly entwined with their mythological understanding of the universe and their place in it. Although the details vary, a frequent theme is that illness is caused by having too much or too little of a particular substance in the body.

Soon it will be a sin for parents to have a child which carries the heavy burden of genetic disease.

What pleasure can it give God to see a man devoured by a cancer; to see the quivering flesh slowly eaten; to see the nerves throbbing with pain? Is this a festival for God?

hemophilia is an inherited blood-clotting deficiency, transmitted by women according to the sex-linked recessive Mendelian pattern. Thus, while women carry the defective genes, they almost never suffer from the disease. With rare exceptions, it strikes only males. Yet it does not necessarily strike all the males in a family. Genetically as well as clinically, hemophilia is capricious.

The day will come when man will have to fight noise as inexorably as cholera and the plague

This AIDS stuff is pretty scary. I hope I don't get it.

Graft-versus-host disease is more apt to be seen with bone-marrow transplants, not solid organ transplants.

they were frightened by the concept of a brain tumor; the idea that anybody could have one; even they. The

For some days past there has been little less than a famine in the camp," Washington said in mid-February. Before winter's end, some 2,500 men, almost a quarter of the army, perished from disease, famine, or the cold.

the RIMR was now "probably the best equipped institution for the study of the causes and cure of disease to be found anywhere in the world

Hamilton dreaded parties as "the most fatal disease" of popular governments and hoped America could dispense with such groups.

For Rockefeller, the onset of the disease coincided with his breakdown of the early 1890s.

Both sides had entered the war already weakened by the disease, and just as in 1918, armies propagated the contagion. Hospitals, already overfilled by flu victims, were unable to treat more than a fraction of the wounded. And yet the war raged on, pulling both countries and their neighbors back into the pre-industrial world. Little was left of modernity except for weapons.

Researchers have gathered a wealth of data lately suggesting that chronic anger is so damaging to the body that it ranks with — or even exceeds — cigarette smoking, obesity, and a high-fat diet as a powerful risk factor for early death.

Later studies showed that a prior sense of helplessness and lack of control is linked to both stress and the onset of disease.

three major philosophers who, above all others, are responsible for generating the disease of collectivism and transmitting it to the dictators of our century. The three are: Plato—Kant—Hegel. (The antidote to them is: Aristotle.)

If we ever do achieve freedom from most of today's diseases, or even complete freedom from disease, we will perhaps terminate by drying out and blowing away on a light breeze, but we will still die.

My cholera's acting up again.

I'm from the health department. You've heard of Typhoid Mary? This fella's got enough typhoid to start his own colony.

Know why PMS is called PMS?" "Don't you dare," she threatened. "Only women can tell PMS jokes." "Because 'mad cow disease' was already taken.

Pessimism is mental disease. It means illness in the person who voices it, and in the society which produces that person.

Disease is in essence the result of conflict between Soul and Mind, and will never be eradicated except by spiritual and mental effort.