The writings and the recommendations of the earliest medical scientists and the new breed of clinicians between the mid-fifteenth and early seventeenth centuries were based on the supposition that sufficient study and experimentation would elucidate not only the origins of disease, but its treatment as well.
No one recovers from the disease of being born, a deadly wound if there ever was one.
Though addiction is a disease - a brain disease that's often progressive - addicts who relapse are often blamed.
Some remedies are worse than the disease.
There are some remedies worse than the disease.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
I have a condition called Menieres disease which is a problem with fluid retention in the inner ear. It has four symptoms: ringing in the ear, pressure in the ear, fluctuating hearing loss, and attacks of vertigo.
AIDS is an absolutely tragic disease. The argument about AIDS' being some kind of divine retribution is crap.
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 a remarkable fact that smallpox, a scourge for thousands of years, has now vanished from the earth, except for two tiny vials, one locked in a highly secure facility at the Centers for Disease Control, in Atlanta, and another stored in a similarly secure vault in Siberia.
Childhood is a disease - a sickness that you grow out of.
I have learned to hate all traitors, and there is no disease that I spit on more than treachery.
But the threat of a pandemic is different from that of a nerve agent, in that a disease can spread uncontrollably, long after the first carrier has succumbed.
Though pigs have been proven susceptible to a porcine spongiform encephalopathy, the National Pork Producers Council claims that no naturally occurring cases of 'mad pig' disease have ever been discovered.
Morality is a venereal disease. Its primary stage is called virtue; its secondary stage, boredom; its tertiary stage, syphilis.
There is nothing more painful than watching a child with a terminal disease.
You can have an epidemic in a state. You can have it in a region. You can have it in a country where the critical level of disease passes a certain threshold, and we call that an 'epidemic threshold.'
I have autoimmune disease, thyroid problems, and I've been diagnosed pre-diabetic.
Tobacco smoke contains chemicals that weaken the body's immune system, making it more susceptible to disease and handicapping its ability to destroy cancer cells.
With this disease it is so easy to throw in the towel, and that is the worst thing we can do.
