Diseases Quotes
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Medicine heals doubts as well as diseases.
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It would have been more to the point, more honest and more Christian, in past decades not to support those who intentionally destroyed healthy life than to rebel against those who have no other wish than to avoid disease. Moreover, a policy of laissez faire in this sphere is not only cruelty to the individual guiltless victims but also to the nation as a whole... If the Churches were to declare themselves ready to take over the treatment and care of those suffering from hereditary diseases, we should be quite ready to refrain from sterilizing them.
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There are no incurable diseases — only the lack of will. There are no worthless herbs — only the lack of knowledge.
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All diseases begin in the gut.
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It is believed by experienced doctors that the heat which oozes out of the hand, on being applied to the sick, is highly salutary. It has often appeared, while I have been soothing my patients, as if there was a singular property in my hands to pull and draw away from the affected parts aches and diverse impurities, by laying my hand upon the place, and extending my fingers toward it. Thus it is known to some of the learned that health may be implanted in the sick by certain gestures, and by contact, as some diseases may be communicated from one to another.
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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.
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And we have made of ourselves living cesspools, and driven doctors to invent names for our diseases.
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We are a puny and fickle folk. Avarice, hesitation, and following are our diseases.
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There is no actual starvation or deaths from starvation but there is widespread mortality from diseases due to malnutrition.
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I tell you, the old-fashioned doctor who treated all diseases has completely disappeared, now there are only specialists, and they advertise all the time in the newspapers. If your nose hurts, they send you to Paris: there's a European specialist there, he treats noses. You go to Paris, he examines your nose: I can treat only your right nostril, he says, I don't treat left nostrils, it's not my specialty, but after me, go to Vienna, there's a separate specialist there who will finish treating your left nostril.
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A physician who fails to enter the body of a patient with the lamp of knowledge and understanding can never treat diseases. He should first study all the factors, including environment, which influence a patient's disease, and then prescribe treatment. It is more important to prevent the occurrence of disease than to seek a cure.
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The deviation of man from the state in which he was originally placed by nature seems to have proved to him a prolific source of diseases.
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Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.
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Every 30 seconds a patient dies from diseases that could be treated with tissue replacement.
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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 ... These 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.
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...all the most acute, most powerful, and most deadly diseases, and those which are most difficult to be understood by the inexperienced, fall upon the brain.
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Vegetarians claim to be immune from most diseases but they have been known to die from time to time.
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When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.
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New diseases like SARS and bird flu cause anxiety in the community. People get worried, some to the extent that it even affects their health. You feel very sad, and yet you must carry on and maintain your cool in very trying and difficult moments. You have to tough it out.
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Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
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The forms of diseases are many and the healing of them is manifold.
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Mathematics is like childhood diseases. The younger you get it, the better.
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They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases.
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It is almost certain that excess in eating is the cause of almost all the diseases of the body, but its effects on the soul are even more disastrous.
