“Throughout Asia and Europe, pearls were traditionally believed to ease a range of conditions, including eye diseases, fever, insomnia, 'female complaints', dysentery, whooping cough, measles, loss of virility, and bed-wetting ... Though nobody seems to advertise the potential for pearls to cure bed-wetting anymore.” SeemsEyeLossConditionsBedDiseaseEuropeFemaleIncludingCuresRangeEaseComplaintsPearlsAsiaInsomniaFeverMeaslesWhooping CoughDysentery Book:Jewels: A Secret History Source: Jewels: A Secret History
“It's my experience that people are a lot more sympathetic if they can see you hurting, and for the millionth time in my life I wish for measles or smallpox or some other easily understood disease just to make it easier on me and also on them.” PeopleIfsWishHurtEasierDiseaseUnderstoodSympatheticSmallpoxMeasles Author:Jennifer Niven
“Measles will always show you if someone isn't doing a good job on vaccinations. Kids will start dying of measles.” IfsShowsKidsJobsDyingDiseaseGood JobVaccinationsMeasles Author:Bill Gates
“Some of the old diseases that we think are gone - case in point, measles - are back, now that somebody has spread around, in a very wicked way, the idea that these inoculations were making children autistic. Now we're getting outbreaks that are killing children. The end result is, if you create a population that lacks immunity, and diseases are still there, you're going to get outbreaks and you're going to get death.” IfsThinkingWayChildrenStillsIdeasEndsResultsCasesGoneDiseaseKillingPopulationSpreadWickedAutisticEnd ResultsImmunityOutbreaksMeaslesWicked Ways Author:Margaret Atwood
“Pneumonia is a disease that often flies under the radar of not just the public but even the global health community. It kills more children under 5 years old every year than AIDS, malaria, and measles combined.” YearsChildrenCommunityDiseaseAidsRadarMalariaMeaslesPneumoniaGlobal Health Author:Mandy Moore
“Slavery may, perhaps, be best compared to the infantile disease of measles; a complaint which so commonly attacks the young of humanity in their infancy, and when gone through at that period leaves behind it so few fatal marks; but which when it normally attacks the fully developed adult becomes one of the most virulent and toxic of diseases, often permanently poisoning the constitution where it does not end in death.” MayDoeEndsYoungHumanityBehindsGonePeriodsDiseaseAdultsConstitutionMarkSlaveryToxicComplaintsInfancyPoisoningInfantileMeasles Author:Olive Schreiner