#disease

There is no disease more conducive to clinical humility than aneurysm of the aorta. ↗

— William Osler

#conducive #disease #humility #more #than

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? ↗

— Paracelsus

#could #cure #discovered #diseases #make

Once a disease has entered the body, all parts which are healthy must fight it: not one alone, but all. Because a disease might mean their common death. Nature knows this; and Nature attacks the disease with whatever help she can muster. ↗

— Paracelsus

#attacks #because #body #common #death

You fall into my arms. You are the good gift of destruction's path, When life sickens more than disease. And boldness is the root of beauty. Which draws us together. ↗

— Boris Pasternak

#beauty #boldness #destruction #disease #draws

The biggest disease this day and age is that of people feeling unloved. ↗

— Princess Diana

#biggest #day #disease #feeling #people

They do certainly give very strange, and newfangled, names to diseases. ↗

— Plato

#diseases #give #names #strange #very

It seems that when you have cancer you are a brave battler against the disease, but when you have Alzheimer's you are an old fart. That's how people see you. It makes you feel quite alone. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#alone #alzheimer #brave #cancer #disease

The bravest person I've ever met was a young boy going through massive amounts of treatment for a very rare, complex and unpleasant disease. I last saw him at a Discworld convention, where he chose to take part in a game as an assassin. He died not long afterwards, and I wish I had his fortitude and sense of style. ↗

— Terry Pratchett

#assassin #boy #bravest #chose #complex

We live in a time when the words impossible and unsolvable are no longer part of the scientific community's vocabulary. Each day we move closer to trials that will not just minimize the symptoms of disease and injury but eliminate them. ↗

— Christopher Reeve

#community #day #disease #each #eliminate

My priorities are to make sure we get the prescription drug bill, that we fund the research in NIH adequately, and that we fund the Center for Disease Control adequately. ↗

— Ralph Regula

#bill #center #control #disease #fund