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Melancholia is the beginning and a part of mania. The development of a mania is really a worsening of the disease (melancholia) rather than a change into another disease.

Melancholy Is not, as you conceive, indisposition Of body, but the mind's disease.

Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.

Mental illness is a disease and organic mental illness of young kids is becoming more and more of a disease... we do need to talk about it.

Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.

Mike Huckabee says the answer to our problems is to cure all diseases. I guess no one's thought of that before.

Middle management is a disease.

Microsoft stepping in is the symptom, not the disease.

Millions of Americans every year depend upon medical imaging exams to diagnose disease and detect injury, and thousands more rely on radiation therapy to treat and cure their cancers.

Misery is a communicable disease.

Moderate labor of the body conduces to the preservation of health, and cares many initial diseases.

Modern historians have suggested that in his last years he (Richard II) was overtaken by mental disease, but that is only a modern view of the malfunction common to 14th century rulers: inability to inhibit impulse.

Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.

More important is the fact that embryonic stem cell research could lead to new treatments and cures for the many Americans afflicted with life-threatening and debilitating diseases.

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

Most disease is psychic occult attack.

Most disease is lifestyle related and preventable

Most of the time pests and disease are just nature's way of telling the farmer he's doing something wrong.

Most of us don't collapse into puddles of stress-related disease.

Most women do not realize that heart disease is the #1 killer of American women.

Must love be ever treated with profaneness as a mere illusion? or with coarseness as a mere impulse? or with fear as a mere disease? or with shame as a mere weakness? or with levity as a mere accident? whereas it is a great mystery and a great necessity, lying at the foundation of human existence, morality, and happiness,--mysterious, universal, inevitable as death.

Muscular dystrophy ... was never seen until Duchenne described it in the 1850s. By 1860, after his original description, many hundreds of cases had been recognised and described, so much so that Charcot said: 'How is it that a disease so common, so widespread, and so recognisable at a glance - a disease which has doubtless always existed - how is it that it is recognised only now? Why did we need M. Duchenne to open our eyes?'

My program is to leave the fools to nature. She has diseases with which to deal with them.

My argument is not that we must never intervene in nature. My argument is that there is a moral difference between intervention for the sake of health, to cure or prevent disease, and intervention for the sake of achieving a competitive edge for our kids in a consumer society.

My diseases are an asthma and a dropsy and, what is less curable, seventy-five.

My fascination is broadly with biology and the fact that our increased understanding of biology allows for breakthroughs in a broad set of diseases.

My mother says I'm like a disease that can walk into a room and get it infected. I can destroy things in seconds.

My experience of malaria was just taking anti-malarials, which give you strange dreams, because I don't want to get malaria.

Name me no names for my disease, With uninforming breath; I tell you I am none of these, But homesick unto death —Homesick for hills that I had known, For brooks that I had crossed, Before I met this flesh and bone And followed and was lost… .And though they break my heart at last, Yet name no name of ills. Say only, “Here is where he passed, Seeking again those hills.

National Osteoporosis Awareness and Prevention Month is celebrated each May, and becomes a chance for our Nation to become more familiar with the effects of this disease, and about the preventable steps that we can take to deal with it.

Negative thoughts are contagious and they get passed around like a disease. I inoculate myself against the fear of failure.

Neglect starts out as an infection then becomes a disease.

Nearly all men die of their medicines, not of their diseases.

Never must the physician say, the disease is incurable. By that admission he denies God, our Creator; he doubts Nature with her profuseness of hidden powers and mysteries.

Nobody spends any money on smallpox unless they worry about a bio-terrorist recreating it.

New molecular methods that add or modify genes can protect plants from diseases and pests and improve crops in ways that are both more environmentally benign and beyond the capability of older methods.

Ninety percent of the cases of polio are in security-vulnerable areas.

No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.

No disease is more dangerous than a bad husband, for if a woman catches that Pox, she'll languish from it her entire life.

No good is ever done to society by the pictorial representation of its diseases.

No matter who you are, what you've accomplished, what your financial situation is - when you're dealing with a parent with Alzheimer's, you yourself feel helpless. The parent can't work, can't live alone, and is totally dependent, like a toddler. As the disease unfolds, you don't know what to expect.

Nostalgia could be considered a disease because you're living now.

Nothing is more essential in the treatment of serious disease than the liberation of the patient from panic and foreboding.

Of course it is extremely difficult to like oneself in a culture which thinks you are a disease.

Novelists who treat violence and cruelty as something to be exploited for their effect, or to enjoy the pleasure of an evacuation, are carriers of a singularly unpleasant disease.

Nowhere is it more true that "prevention is better than cure," than in the case of Parasitic Diseases.

Nursing is a kind of mania; a fever in the blood; an incurable disease.

Nutrition science, however, suggests that golden rice alone will not greatly diminish vitamin A defi-ciency and associated blindness. [”¦] People whose diets lack [fats and proteins] or who have intestinal diarrheal diseases -- common in develop-ing countries -- cannot obtain vitamin A from golden rice.

Of all the diseases I have known, loneliness is the worst.

Of course you know the miracle of AIDS, we all do. It's the only disease that turns fruits into vegetables.