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I was a sickly child, contracting tuberculosis at the age of five.
I suppose she's just dying of living
that's the one infection that strikes us all down, sooner or later.
My cholera's acting up again.
But what does it mean, the plague? It's life, that's all.
- I envy Christ, he had a disease named after him
Diabetes is a lousy, lousy disease.
Any disease that is treated as a mystery and acutely enough feared will be felt to be morally, if not literally, contagious.
Comforts and syphilis are the greatest enemies of mankind.
You know the disease, you know the remedy, only have faith.
He lay in darkness, like a sacrifice; he could hear the teeth of his leprosy devouring his flesh. There was a smell of contempt around him, insisting on his impotence. But his lips were bowed in a placid smile, a look of fondness, as if he had come at last to approve his disintegration.
But only a leper shows its sins to the world.
I feel no disgust when I hear the confessions of those near their end, whose wounds are full of maggots ... This may give you some idea of my daily work. Picture to yourself a collection of huts with 800 Lepers. No doctor; in fact, as there is no cure, there seems no place for a doctor's skill.
It was ancient and had risen from the boiling earth. It had slept, falling dormant in the dust, rising in mist. Tuberculosis had flown in a dizzy rush to unite with warm life. It was in each new world, and every old world. First it loved animals, then it loved people too.
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.
There is no illness of the body except for the mind
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
Treat the Disease, Not the Symptom....
The thrush called strangeness into the sunset.
Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?
Gather up your fighting spirit or the disease will deafeat you!
Love was a fever that came along a few years after chicken-pox and measles and scarlet fever.
Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.
It is with jealousy as with the gout. When such distempers are in the blood, there is never any security against their breaking out, and that often on the slightest occasions, and when least suspected.
As for being AIDS infested, I don't know yet, I'm too scared to get tested.
It's worse than a disease. It's a poison.
Is it not meningitis?
There are many things to resist, but disease is not one of them.
From my numerous observations, I conclude that these tubercle bacilli occur in all tuberculous disorders, and that they are distinguishable from all other microorganisms.
Lyme disease, psittacosis, Q fever: These three differ wildly in their particulars but share two traits in common. They are all zoonotic and they are all bacterial. They stand as reminders that not every bad, stubborn, new bug is a virus.
In seasons of pestilence, some of us will have a secret attraction to the disease
a terrible passing inclination to die of it.
There's no medical term for what I've got.
I'll lick a leper's neck before I take a lung-full o' your stench, Brother Row.
Life is a sexual transmission disease
I thought I had mono for a year ... Turns out I was just really bored.
I have inflammation of the imagination.
I know no such disease of the soul, but ignorance.
Negativity. Mankind's most widespread plague.
Everything that used to be a sin is now a disease.
It is feared that it may be the smallpox, sir," replied Porthos ... "and what is serious is that it will certainly spoil his face.
is, in truth, a variety of diseases
AIDS is a state of mind, not a disease.
Name a sexual disease, she got it like Sam Goody.
I could do without the Bubonic Plague.
Bacteria: The only culture some people have.
Herpes, AIDS, the Middle East at full throttle. Better check that sausage before you put it in the waffle.
I am very confused and it's from a very very long time....
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Already is a disease and it's spreading around the world... GLOBAL WARMING!
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.
Disease, and most specially opprobrious, suppressed, secret disease, creates a certain critical opposition to the world, to mediocre life, disposes a man to be obstinate and ironical toward civil order, so that he seeks refuge in free thought, in books, in study.
No matter where you go, no matter what you touch, there is cancer and syphilis. It is written in the sky; it flames and dances, like an evil portent. It has eaten into our souls and we are nothing but a dead thing like the moon.
But, gentlemen, whoever can pride himself on his diseases and even swagger over them?
Ye have taught me something I never understood."
"What? How to get rid of Parisian Pink Pecker Disease?
There are follies as catching as contagious disorders.
Better a good venereal disease than a moribund peace and quiet.
Despite a lifetime of service to the cause of sexual liberation, I have never caught venereal disease, which makes me feel rather like an Arctic explorer who has never had frostbite.
I actually get venereal disease more often than most people catch colds.
Everything is infectious in this world, good or bad.
Travel' is the name of a modern disease which became rampant in themid-fifties and is still spreading. The disease - its scientific name is travelitis furiosus - is carried by a germ called prosperity.
This disease of curiosity.
If love is a disease, I suppose I'm infected.
Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.
Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.
Disease of the home and of the life comes about in the same way as that of the body.
You live in intimate association with bacteria, and you couldn't survive without them.
Us elderly are the modern lepers.
That's the world out there, little green apples and infectious disease.
When I travel, I get lovesick. Well, they call it chlamydia.
Chronic Lyme causes arthritis, heart problems, stroke - even death.
He had picked up languages the way most sailors pick up diseases; languages were his gonorrhoea, his syphilis, his scurvy, his ague, his plague.
Disease is surely one of the ways in which we are tried by life and offered the chance to be heroic. Though few of us will win Olympic gold medals or slay dragons, disease can be the spark or gift that allows many of us to live out our personal myths and become heroes.
Kill thy physician, and the fee bestow Upon the foul disease. Revoke thy gift; Or, whilst I can vent clamour from my throat, I'll tell thee thou dost evil.
You said that you are ill... but from from what?Ill-- Deyth Banger
Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.
The problem for a Paracelsian physician like me is that I see diseases as disguises in which people present me with their wretchedness.
bloody nose. Fred,
Plague? the guard interrupted.
A most malicious cough
Writing in the incurable itch that possesses many.
To all pimps and whores a merry syphilis and a happy gonorrhea.
So intense was his sexual frustration that it had begun to feel like a life-threatening illness: testicular gout, libidinal gangrene.
Demon pox. There's always demon pox.
The parasites live where the great have little secret sores.
Shaylene knew of three children in Norwalk besides Lolek who came down with the fever during the past few years. One of those children, a four-year-old girl, tragically died because of it.
It was still there, a low-grade fever in the blood, an itch somewhere down beneath the skin, where you couldn't scratch it.
A new disease? I know not, new or old, but it may well be called poor mortals plague for, like a pestilence, it doth infect the houses of the brain till not a thought, or motion, in the mind, be free from the black poison of suspect.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
This long disease, my life.
The distempers of the soul have their relapses, as many and as dangerous as those of the body; and what we take for a perfect cureis generally either an abatement of the same disease or the changing of that for another.
The city is a plague ... and I am the penicillin.
So lethal was the disease that cases were known of persons going to bed well and dying before they woke, of doctors catching the illness at a bedside and dying before the patient.
Cure the symptoms, cure the disease.
These people walk by a window deformed by leprosy begging for a few paise, walk by children dressed in rags living in the street, and they think, "Business as usual" But if they perceive a slight against God, it is a different story.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
Heart disease syphilis pregnancy
All you creeps on the street get away from me
The cure until the late 1940s, when there was an antibiotic discovered for tuberculosis, was basically rest. It was fresh, cold air, lots of food - five meals a day, lots of sleep, not very much talking, and for some people, complete stillness.
I am infected with life and will die of it in time.
That man penetrated me with his shame. Shame, I realize now, is an infectious disease. Shame can be sexually transmitted. (107)
How many people throughout history suffered from my disease and others like it but went untreated? This question is made more pressing by the knowledge that even though the disease was discovered in 2007, some doctors I spoke to believe that it's been around at least as long as humanity has.
Rumors of sneezing, kissing, tears, sweat, and saliva spreading AIDS caused people to panic.
One day soon you will meet a man, and he will rise like a phoenix from the ashes, and it is my greatest hope that he will not give you syphilis.
I had AIDS, but I beat it with Advil.