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“Disease is an abnormal state of the body which primarily and independently produces a disturbance in the normal functions of the body. It may be an abnormality of temperament or form (structure). Symptom is a manifestation of some abnormal state in the body. It may be harmful as a colic pain or harmless as the flushing of cheeks in peripneumonia.”

Source: The Canon of Medicine (al-Qānūn Fī'l-ṭibb)

“Experience, the only logic sure to convince a diseased imagination and restore it to rugged health.”

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Book:The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

Source: The Wit and Wisdom of Mark Twain

“Many dishes many diseases, Many medicines few cures.”

Health Disease Medicine Cures Dishes

Book:The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

Source: The Way to Wealth and Poor Richard's Almanac

“We are led to think of diseases as isolated disturbances in a healthy body, not as the phases of certain periods of bodily development.”

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Author:Clifford Allbutt

“Every child deserves a chance at a life filled with love, laughter, friends and family. We are working to find the cures that will give these youngsters a fighting chance. When a child or parent faces an uncertain disease like cancer, they can find hope at St. Jude - a place where miracles can and do happen.”

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Author:Marlo Thomas

“It's far more important to know what person the disease has than what disease the person has.”

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Author:Hippocrates

“There can be no real growth without healthy populations. No sustainable development without tackling disease and malnutrition. No international security without assisting crisis-ridden countries. And no hope for the spread of freedom, democracy and human dignity unless we treat health as a basic human right.”

“No company is preferable to bad. We are more apt to catch the vices of others than virtues, as disease is far more contagious than health.”

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Author:Charles Caleb Colton

“Words cannot fully express the devastation and horror caused by NTDs. Until now, these diseases have been hidden in the shadows, but working with the Global Network, I am focused on bringing this tragedy to the public eye.”

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Author:Alyssa Milano

“Health has its science, as well as disease.”

Wells Health Disease

Book:Medicine as a Profession for Women

Source: Medicine as a Profession for Women

“Every day we hear about the dangers of cancer, heart disease and AIDS. But how many of us realize that, in much of the world, the act of giving life to a child is still the biggest killer of women of child-bearing age?”

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Author:Liya Kebede

“I wish more and more that health were studied half as much as disease is. Why, with all the endowment of research against cancer, is no study made of those who are free from cancer? Why not inquire what foods they eat, what habits of body and mind they cultivate?”

“Every human being is the author of his own health or disease.”

“Disease cannot live in a body that's in a healthy emotional state.”

States Body Emotional Health Healthy Disease

Author:Bob Proctor