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"I'm tired of hearing sin called sickness and alcoholism a disease. It is the only disease I know of that we're spending hundreds of millions of dollars a year to spread."
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
"It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has."
"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
Explore more quotes by Peter Lewis Allen
"Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves."
"Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?"
"The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets."
"Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s."
"Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said."
"Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices."
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