Quotes About Disease

But then I told him there was still one other possibility that I couldn't get out of my head: a necrotizing fasciitis.

The job of any doctor, Bludau later told me, is to support quality of life, by which he meant two things: as much freedom from the ravages of diseases as possible and the retention of enough function for active engagement in the world.

But in truth no single disease leads to the end; the culprit is just the accumulated crumbling of one's bodily systems while medicine carries out its maintenance measures and patch jobs.

She said, You seem confused about your function here. It is to offer medical solutions for my disease. If you cannot, you pass me on to a more competent doctor.

When you do not have your health, nothing else matters at all.

Genius is an exaggeration of dimension. So is elephantiasis. Both may be only a disease.

One viewed the existence of man then as a marvel, and conceded a glamour of wonder to these lice which were caused to cling to a whirling, fire-smote, ice-locked, disease-stricken, space-lost bulb.

How will we feed an ever-growing population? Provide clean water, generate renewable energy, prevent and cure disease and slow down global climate change? I hope that science and technology will provide the answers to these questions, but it will take people, human beings with knowledge and understanding, to implement these solutions.

He reached out with one bird-claw hand. He closed it around my wrist and I could feel the hot cancer that was loose and raving through his body, eating anything and everything left that was still good to eat.

Like measles, mumps, or rubella, tragedy was contagious. Unlike those diseases, there was no vaccine.

Why did this disease choose me? I cannot carry it, if its just for the word: Fate.

Her legacy was not--would not be--this disease. Phyllis Marie Unold Avery told us stories...It is my promise to her that for as long as I am able, I will recognize, restory, and remember.

The only deadly disease I have seen that is causing great harm and massacre latently yet the world has ignored is ignorance!

Love is the medicine that saves from disease.

Love is the only disease that makes you feel better.

Love is a disease which fills you with a desire to be desired.... - Comte de Toulouse

Edward Carpenter looked at civilization as a kind of disease we have to pass through.48 This Decadence can be overcome. Confronting the nature of the whole is the inescapable challenge.

Tuberculosis and diarrheal disease had to await the rise of farming, measles and bubonic plague the appearance of large cities," wrote Jared Diamond. Malaria, probably the single greatest killer of humanity, and nearly all other infectious diseases are the heritage of agriculture.

It's very hard not to commit cancer suicide in America.

Why was there still no Ebola vaccine after more than 20 outbreaks of the disease since it was discovered in 1976?

The psychologist Mark Schaller has shown that disgust is part of what he calls the "behavioral immune system"—a set of cognitive modules that are triggered by signs of infection or disease in other people and that make you want to get away from those people.40

Family. It's an incurable disease.

Gli omosessuali gli fanno paura, li odia, Pensa che un omosessuale ereditario possa contaminare con la sua malattia decine di giovani, e che allora tutti quei giovani saranno perduti per la razza.

Societies work very hard to prevent people from seeing through the veil of myth, fantasy and propaganda which is used to hide the realities of health and disease. For example, the simple fact that the rich live longer and healthier lives than the poor is so easily ignored; society distracts us to consider instead the individual misfortunes and tragedies occurring to poor people.