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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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"Another interesting field, which is my own, is cofactors, not only to the disease but also to transmission. I am still puzzled by the fact that you get more sexual transmission in some ethnic populations. One way to answer this is to look for genetic factors."
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
"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."
"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
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"A wise man should consider that health is the greatest of human blessings, and learn how by his own thought to derive benefit from his illnesses."
"Keep a watch also on the faults of the patients, which often make them lie about the taking of things prescribed."
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