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"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
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"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
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"The dancing sickness took place during the latter part of the fifteenth century. Bubonic plague--the black death--decimated Europe near the end of the fourteenth. Whooping cough near the end of the seventeenth, and the first known outbreaks of influenza near the end of the nineteenth. We've become so used to the idea of the flu--it seems almost like the common cold to us, doesn't it?--that no one but the historians seem to know that a hundred years ago it didn't exist."
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"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
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"Anthrax is a deadly inhalational disease."
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"With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do."
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"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"Just carrying a ruler with you in your pocket should be forbidden, at least on a moral basis. The ruler is the symbol of the new illiteracy. The ruler is the symptom of the new disease, disintegration of our civilisation."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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"It is difficult to write about any form of mental disease, especially your own, without sounding as if you were examining a bug under glass."
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"I think eventually they're going to find out that MS is like 10 different things. I have a neurological disease something like MS, and it's MS, so let's take medicine for it."
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"Prayer indeed is good, but while calling on the gods a man should himself lend a hand."
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"Whenever a doctor cannot do good, he must be kept from doing harm."
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"Cure sometimes, treat often, comfort always."
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"It is more important to know what sort of person has a disease than to know what sort of disease a person has."
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"Healing is a matter of time, but it is sometimes also a matter of opportunity."
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"There are in fact two things, science and opinion; the former begets knowledge, the later ignorance."
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"What medicines do not heal, the lance will; what the lance does not heal, fire will."
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"Make a habit of two things: to help; or at least to do no harm."
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"Science is the father of knowledge, but opinion breeds ignorance."
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"Walking is man's best medicine."
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