Disease Quotes - Page 6

• [I]nfectious disease is merely a disagreeable instance of a widely prevalent tendency of all living creatures to save themselves the bother of building, by their own efforts, the things they require. Whenever they find it possible to take advantage of the constructive labors of others, this is the path of least resistance. The plant does the work with its roots and its green leaves. The cow eats the plant. Man eats both of them; and bacteria (or investment bankers) eat the man.

  Hans Zinsser

  Men, Roots, Effort

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• Acute [diseases] meaning those of which God is the author, chronic meaning those that originate in ourselves.

  Thomas Sydenham

  God

  Thomas Sydenham, Robert Gordon Latham (1850). “The works of Thomas Sydenham, M.D.”, p.68

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• Progress is a comfortable disease.

  e. e. cummings

  Fear, Progress, Atheism

  1 x 1 no. 14, l. 1 (1944)

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• Physicians of the utmost fame, Were called at once; but when they came They answered, as they took their fees, 'There is no Cure for this Disease.'

  Hilaire Belloc

  Physicians, Fame, Fees

  Cautionary Tales (1907) "Henry King"

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• The radiation of radium was "contagious"-Contagious like a persistent scent or a disease. It was impossible for an object, a plant, an animal or a person to be left near a tube of radium without immediately acquiring a notable "activity" which a sensitive apparatus could detect.

  Eve Curie

  Science, Animal, Scent

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• Cord blood stem cell units have been shown to be a suitable alternative to adult bone marrow for the treatment of many diseases, including sickle cell anemia.

  Nathan Deal

  Cells, Blood, Adults

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• Every year 3.1 million Indian children die before the age of 5, mostly from diseases of poverty like diarrhea.

  Nicholas D. Kristof

  Children, Years, Age

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• Infectious Disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

  Hans Zinsser

  Adventure, World, Genuine

  Hans Zinsser (2011). “Rats, Lice and History”, p.13, Transaction Publishers

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• ...those who sit at their work and are therefore called 'chair workers,' such as cobblers and tailors, suffer from their own particular diseases ... [T]hese workers ... suffer from general ill-health and an excessive accumulation of unwholesome humors caused by their sedentary life ... so to some extent counteract the harm done by many days of sedentary life. On the association between chronic inactivity and poor health. Ramazzini urged that workers should at least exercise on holidays

  Bernardino Ramazzini

  Holiday, Exercise, Science

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• Often the confidence of the patient in his physician does more for the cure of his disease than the physician with all his remedies. Reasserting the statement by Avicenna.

  Henri de Mondeville

  Medicine, Physicians, Doe

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• I have come to realize more and more that the greatest disease and the greatest suffering is to be unwanted, unloved, uncared for, to be shunned by everybody, to be just nobody.

  Mother Teresa

  Suffering, Realizing, Unloved

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• The fundamental activity of medical science is to determine the ultimate causation of disease.

  Wilfred Trotter

  Fundamentals, Medical Science, Causation

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• A more effective international disease surveillance system is essential for global security both against a bioterrorist attack or a naturally occurring disease.

  Daniel Kahikina Akaka

  Essentials, Surveillance, International

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• Of course, there are diseases of which people die.

  Serge Lang

  People, Courses, Dies

  Serge Lang (1998). “Challenges”, p.605, Springer Science & Business Media

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• Arrogance, pedantry, and dogmatism...the occupational diseases of those who spend their lives directing the intellects of the young.

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Teacher, Teaching, Learning

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• There are some modern practitioners, who declaim against medical theory in general, not considering that to think is to theorize; and that no one can direct a method of cure to a person labouring under disease, without thinking, that is, without theorizing; and happy therefore is the patient, whose physician possesses the best theory.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Science, Thinking, Physicians

  Erasmus Darwin, Robert Waring Darwin (1794). “Zoonomia; or, The laws of organic life ...”, p.2

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• I much condole with you on your late loss... pains and diseases of the mind are only cured by Forgetfulness;--Reason but skins the wound, which is perpetually liable to fester again.

  Erasmus Darwin

  Pain, Loss, Mind

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• A cancer is not only a physical disease, it is a state of mind.

  Bill Vaughan

  Cancer, Mind, States

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• No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

  Charles Caleb Colton

  Health, Vices, Virtue

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• 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.

  Philip K. Dick

  Moving, Errors, Car

  1977 A Scanner Darkly, author's note.

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• The disease which inflicts bureaucracy and what they usually die from is routine.

  John Stuart Mill

  Routine, Rebellious, Bureaucracy

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• We must treat the disease of racism. This means we must understand the disease.

  Sargent Shriver

  Mean, Racism, Racist

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• Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material.

  Susan Sontag

  Real, Political, Aliens

  Susan Sontag (2013). “Illness as Metaphor and AIDS and Its Metaphors”, p.107, Penguin UK

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• There are only two things a child will share willingly; communicable diseases and its mother's age.

  Benjamin Spock

  Funny, Mother, Children

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• To cure the British disease with socialism was like trying to cure leukaemia with leeches.

  Margaret Thatcher

  Trying, Leeches, Socialism

  "The Downing Street Years". Book by Margaret Thatcher, October 18, 1993.

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