Quotes About Health

The world's last great pandemic was the Spanish flu outbreak in 1918 that killed a hundred million people—about 5 percent of the world's population. If a pandemic like that were to happen again, it would spread faster and might be impossible to contain.

There may be no better use of taxpayer dollars than in funding the NIH; it is a shining example of something our government does extremely well

Anthony Fauci, director of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases at the NIH, told our team bluntly that, by going into the jungle and getting leishmaniasis, "You got a really cold jolt of what it's like for the bottom billion people on earth.

Does a toilet seat get ass?

Leishmaniasis has a long and terrible history with human beings, stretching back as far as human records exist and causing suffering and death for thousands of years.

Love, sex, family, the pleasures of food, intellectual delight, friendship, appreciation of beauty, the pleasure of exercise and good health, the excitement of sport and adventure -- all these qualities were given to us, not by God, but by evolution.

Perhaps the ghastliest disease endemic to mosquitia is Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis, sometimes called white leprosy, caused by the bite of an infected sand fly. The Leishmania parasite migrates to the mucus membranes of the victim's nose and lips and eats them away, eventually creating a giant, weeping sore where the face used to be.

Words are healers of the sick tempered.

Arrogance is truly the child of impiety, but from health of soul comes happiness, dear to all, much prayed for.

If you are too smart to pay the doctor, you had better be too smart to get ill.

Filthy water cannot be washed.

It is not work that kills, but worry

When engaged in eating, the brain should be the servant of the stomach.

The great merit of being a doctor," said Sir Bartholomew, "is that you are not obliged to follow your own advice.

After all, perhaps dirt isn't really so unhealthy as one is brought up to believe.

I always feel that young doctors are only too anxious to experiment. After they've whipped out all our teeth, and administered quantities of very peculiar glands, and removed bits of our insides, they then confess that nothing can be done for us. I really prefer the old-fashioned remedy of big black bottles of medicine. After all, one can always pour those down the sink.

DON'T EAT NONE OF THE PLUM PUDDING. ONE WHO WISHES YOU WELL.

A meal should always lie lightly on the estomac," said Poirot. "It should not be so heavy as to paralyze thought.

One's body is a nuisance, M. Poirot, especially when it gets the upper hand. One is conscious of nothing else-- whether the pain will hold off or not--nothing else seems to matter.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you. I have no truck with doctors and their medicines myself.

He had high blood pressure," said Molly. "But surely there are things one takes nowadays—some kind of pill. Science is so wonderful.

How wonderful science is nowadays," said Miss Marple. "Doctors can do so much, can't they?" "We all have one great competitor," said Dr. Graham. "Nature, you know. And some of the good old-fashioned home remedies come back from time to time.

I have had too much experience of life to believe in the infallibility of doctors. Some of them are clever men and some of them are not, and half the time the best of them don't know what is the matter with you.

I didn't get to that pudding in time. It had boiled dry. I think it's really all right—just a little scorched perhaps. In case it tasted rather nasty I thought I would open a bottle of those raspberries I put up last summer. They seem to have a bit of mould on top but they say nowadays that that doesn't matter. It's really rather good for you—practically penicillin.