#disease

A fiction about soft or easy deaths is part of the mythology of most diseases that are not considered shameful or demeaning. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#considered #deaths #demeaning #diseases #easy

Any important disease whose causality is murky, and for which treatment is ineffectual, tends to be awash in significance. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#awash #causality #disease #important #ineffectual

Authoritarian political ideologies have a vested interest in promoting fear, a sense of the imminence of takeover by aliens and real diseases are useful material. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#diseases #fear #ideologies #interest #material

Despair often breeds disease. ↗

— Sophocles

#despair #disease #often

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

— Sophocles

#amid #angry #applies #disease #grows

Heart disease continues to be the number one killer; cancer, the number 2 killer, not far behind. The tragic aspect of these deadly diseases is that they could all be cured, I do believe, if we had sufficient funding. ↗

— Arlen Specter

#behind #believe #cancer #continues #could

For humble individuals like myself, there is one poor comfort, which is this, viz. that gout, unlike any other disease, kills more rich men than poor, more wise men than simple. ↗

— Thomas Sydenham

#comfort #disease #gout #humble #individuals

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs. ↗

— William Osler

#familiar #fully #important #know #man

Poetry and consumption are the most flattering of diseases. ↗

— William Shenstone

#diseases #flattering #most #poetry

A physician is obligated to consider more than a diseased organ, more even than the whole man - he must view the man in his world. ↗

— Harvey Cushing

#diseased #even #his #man #more