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We have, instead (of soot and dirt), disorganization. We have this proliferation of goods. It's the disease of the time.

We have not only multiplied diseases, but we have made them more fatal.

[we have]taming of an ancient disease [malaria] that over the centuries has killed untold millions of people.

We know from our clinical experience in the practice of medicine that in diagnosis, prognosis, and treatment, the individual and his background of heredity are just as important, if not more so, as the disease itself.

We know that so many of the conditions and diseases that we associate with ageing can often be prevented or in fact their onset delayed if we just took preventative steps earlier in our lives.

We live in a culture where it has been rubbed into us in every conceivable way that to die is a terrible thing. And that is a tremendous disease from which our culture in particular suffers.

We must turn to nature itself, to the observations of the body in health and in disease to learn the truth.

We "need" cancer because, by the very fact of its incurability, it makes all other diseases, however virulent, not cancer.

We need new medical approaches to preventing and/or curing disease. We need new scientific approaches to generating, storing, and being more efficient with energy. Maybe we need more space exploration. Maybe we need more undersea exploration.

We need to alert women everywhere about the seriousness of heart disease.

We need to think of chronic disease, hypertension, cancer, like H1N1. In fact, there's an epidemic of chronic disease.

We should not minimize the great outstanding service of Eugenics for critical and diagnostic investigations. It demonstrates ... that uncontrolled fertility is universally correlated with disease, poverty, overcrowding and the transmission of hereditable traits.

We see clear evidence repeated in many studies that higher intake of trans fats is associated with higher risk of heart disease, and with many other conditions, such as diabetes and infertility.

We were told in one lecture that it was possible to immunize against diphtheria and tetanus by the use of chemically treated toxins, or toxoids. And the following lecture, we were told that for immunization against a virus disease, you have to experience the infection, and that you could not induce immunity with the so-called "killed" or inactivated, chemically treated virus preparation. Well, somehow, that struck me. What struck me was that both statements couldn't be true. And I asked why this was so, and the answer that was given was in a sense, 'Because.' There was no satisfactory answer.

We still think of human disease as the work of an organized, modernized kind of demonology, in which the bacteria are the most visible and centrally placed of our adversaries. We assume that they must somehow relish what they do.

we've got to find a better way to handle the expense of disease. Odd as it may seem, the more efficient we become in eliminating disease, the more our services are out of reach of the people.

We've gone from a preponderance of acute and infectious disease as a source of premature death to chronic diseases, which are the preponderance of the burden of illness in most of the world. That puts a much higher premium on the prevention of chronic disease than ever in history.

What if reality is nothing but some disease?

What sense would it make or what would it benfit a physician if he discovered the origin of the diseases but could not cure or alleviate them?

What I think a doctor should do is prevent disease, by any means necessary.

What precisely is this disease that causes inflation and all these other troubles? It has many popular names, such as socialism, communism, state interventionism, and welfare statism.

What situations can I create that allow me not to have the disease of familiarity?

What I regretted in La Nausee was not to have put myself completely into the thing. I remained outside my hero's disease, protected by my neurosis which, through writing, gave me happiness.

What we need in medical schools is not to teach empathy, as much as to preserve it. The process of learning huge volumes of information about disease, of learning a specialised language, can ironically make one lose sight of the patient one came to serve; empathy can be replaced by cynicism.

What we have in the United States is not so much a health-care system as a disease-care system.

When I was diagnosed I didn't know how epidemic cancer was. You find out that everybody you know is touched by this disease.

What you have to do if you are going to treat any disease is get to the root of the disease.

When I heard you could get a disease from playing with your prairie dog, I thought, 'Wow, what a euphemism.' I thought playing with my prairie dog was the best way to avoid diseases.

When I was a child I had something called Perthes' Disease which meant I was on crutches, so I was bullied at school and all that sort of stuff.

When I got off the soap I got offered all these, you know, 'women in jeopardy' -- I call them 'disease of the week' movies.

When Jesus died on the cross and cried out, 'It is finished!' He not only died for our sins, but for our diseases too.

When my parents died they both were 47, and they died of complications of different diseases; one being diabetes.

When one gets in bed with government, one must expect the diseases it spreads.

When men die of disease they are said to die from natural causes. When they recover (and mostly they do) the doctor gets the credit of curing them.

When money is unreasonably coveted, it is a disease of the mind which is called avarice.

When we hang on to resentments, we poison ourselves. As compulsive overeaters, we cannot afford resentment, since it exacerbates our disease.

When the patient loves his disease, how unwilling he is to allow a remedy to be applied.

When things are not going right, there are satanic forces in operation. What is my solution? To rebuke the condition of sin, death, disease, or whatever it is. I can pray in the Holy Ghost, and that prayer is effectual to bring down every stronghold of the enemy.

When we eat vegetarian foods, we needn't worry about what kind of disease our food died from; this makes a joyful meal!

When you're dealing with new and emerging diseases, you have no idea and you can't predict in advance what would happen.

Whether the patient has a cardiac condition, hypertension, autoimmune disease, fibroids, or asthma, he or she must be informed that fasting and natural, plant-based diets are a viable alternative to conventional therapy, and an effective one.

When you're used to being in the public eye, if you've got a disease, you've got to own up to it. It's about being about it, not running from it.

Where once it was the physician who waged bellum contra morbum, the war against disease, now it's the whole society.

Wherever there is a heart and an intellect, the diseases of the physical frame are tinged with the peculiarities of these.

Whining is a virus, a lethal, infectious, epidemic disease.

While there is no cure, cystic fibrosis is so close to being a livable disease. There is a lot of hope.

Whom the disease of talking still once posses-seth, he can never hold his peace.

Whoever grows angry amid troubles applies a drug worse than the disease and is a physician unskilled about misfortunes.

Why are infectious disease doctors the best ones to date? They are the most cultured and sensitive.

Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.