#tuberculosis

I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five. ↗

— Dinah Sheridan

#child #contracting #five #i #sickly

The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted. ↗

— Mother Teresa

#biggest #disease #feeling #leprosy #rather

Allowed to cast themselves for great tragic roles, they were experiencing the exhilaration felt by great tragic actors. It was not lack of control, lack of taste, lack of knowledge that accounted for permission of what was not permitted in the West. Rather was it the reverse. Our people could not have handled patients full of the dangerous thoughts of death and love; these people had such resources that they did not need to empty their patients of such freight. ↗

— Rebecca West

#death

New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine. ↗

— Daniel Akaka

#aids #alzheimer #animal #been #cancer