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Disease Quotes
"There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta."
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"I feel coming on a strange disease - humility."
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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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"The good physician treats the disease; the great physician treats the patient who has the disease."
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"I mean, I inherited the disease of alcoholism, and I learned early to get help when I needed it."
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"It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has."
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"I have had Crohn's for about 19 years. It is a debilitating disease that affects my colon."
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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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"The fact that I was fortunate enough to escape contagion, in spite of frequent, sometimes daily contacts with the disease, was because I soon guessed how it spread."
1
"Point set topology is a disease from which the human race will soon recover."
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"I confidently affirm that the greater part of those who are supposed to have died of gout, have died of the medicine rather than the disease - a statement in which I am supported by observation."
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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."
"Antioxidants have a good effect on certain forms of Crohn's disease."
"We are going to find, I think, several different kinds of Crohn's 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."
"When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied."
"When a lot of remedies are suggested for a disease, that means it can't be cured."
"Anti-Semitism has no historical, political and certainly no philosophical origins. Anti-Semitism is a disease."
"Hastiness and superficiality are the psychic diseases of the twentieth century, and more than anywhere else this disease is reflected in the press."
"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."
"Disease is a vital expression of the human organism."
"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."
"Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout."
"The fact is that ours is the first generation that can look disease and extreme poverty in the eye, look across the ocean to Africa, and say this, and mean it. We do not have to stand for this. A whole continent written off - we do not have to stand for this."
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