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“Only yesterday mankind lived in fear of the scourges of smallpox, cholera and plague that once swept nations before them. Now our major concern is no longer with the disease organisms that once were omnipresent; sanitation, better living conditions, and new drugs have given us a high degree of control over infectious disease. Today we are concerned with a different kind of hazard that lurks in our environment-a hazard we ourselves have introduced into our world as our modern way of life has evolved.”

Source: Silent Spring

“The revolution has overthrown the monarchy, true! But perhaps this means that the revolution simply has driven the skin disease inside the organism.”

Mean Revolution Disease Skins Driven Organisms Monarchy

Author:Maxim Gorky

“Homeopathy did not merely seek to cure a disease but treated a disease as a sign of disorder of the whole human organism. This was also recognized in the Upanishad which spoke of human organs as combination of body mind and spirit. Homoeopathy would pay an important part in the Public Health of the country along with other systems. Medical facilities in India are so scanty that Homoeopathy can confidently visualize a vast field of expansion.”

“In the same way that plants will not grow on soil that lacks some substance indispensable to their growth, so microbes, these microscopic plants which cause infectious disease, are unable to grow in an organism which does not give them all the substances they need.”

Way Needs Giving Doe Grows Causes Growth Disease Plant Substance Soil Organisms Indispensable Microbes Infectious Diseases

Author:Elie Metchnikoff

“A disease is never a mere loss or excess. There is always a reaction on the part of the organism or individual to restore, replace or compensate for and to preserve its identity, however strange the means may be.”

May Mean Individual Loss Identity Strange Disease Mere Reactions Psychological Preserves Excess Organisms

Book:The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

Source: The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat: Picador Classic

“To demonstrate experimentally that a microscopic organism actually is the cause of a disease and the agent of contagion, I know no other way, in the present state of Science, than to subject the microbe (the new and happy term introduced by M. Sédillot) to the method of cultivation out of the body.”

Knows Way States Body Science Causes Term Knowledge Subjects Disease Method Agents Organisms Cultivation Contagion Microbes

Book:Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

Source: Scientific Papers; Physiology, Medicine, Surgery, Geology

“If diphtheria is a disease caused by a microorganism, it is essential that three postulates be fulfilled. The fulfilment of these postulates is necessary in order to demonstrate strictly the parasitic nature of a disease: 1) The organism must be shown to be constantly present in characteristic form and arrangement in the diseased tissue. 2) The organism which, from its behaviour appears to be responsible for the disease, must be isolated and grown in pure culture. 3) The pure culture must be shown to induce the disease experimentally. An early statement of Koch's postulates.”