“Gout produces calculus in the kidney... the patient has frequently to entertain the painful speculation as to whether gout or stone be the worst disease. Sometimes the stone, on passing, kills the patient, without waiting for the gout.” SometimesWaitingWorstProduceDiseaseStonesPatientPainfulPassingPassingsSpeculationCalculusKidneysGoutKidney Disease Author:Thomas Sydenham
“The whole idea of being in captivity in such limited space, especially in a zoo, causes elephants to suffer. They develop all kinds of foot diseases. They die. They get cysts. Not only is it painful, it eventually kills them.” KindIdeasWholeSufferingDiesCausesSpaceFeetDiseasePainfulAll KindsElephantsZoosCaptivity Author:Lily Tomlin
“Most people believe that aging is painful and we know that pain is from diseases that are preventable, not from aging.” PeopleKnowsBelievePainDiseaseAgingPainful Author:Deepak Chopra
“Medicine is not about conquering diseases and death, but about the alleviation of suffering, minimising harm, smoothing the painful journey of man to the grave.” MenSufferingJourneyDiseaseMedicinePainfulHarmGravesConquerDisease And Death Author:Petr Skrabanek
“At 17, the smallest crises took on tremendous proportions; someone else's thoughts could take root in the loam of your own mind; having someone accept you was as vital as oxygen. Adults, light years away from this, rolled their eyes and smirked and said, 'This too shall pass' - as if adolescence was a disease like chicken pox, something everyone recalled as a milk nuisance, completely forgetting how painful it had been at the time.” IfsYearsMindSaidLightEyeForgetAcceptingDiseaseAdultsRootsCrisisPainfulProportionChickensMilkSmallestAdolescenceOxygenNuisanceLight YearsPoxThis Too Shall Pass Author:Jodi Picoult
“It was a truth that invaded her, like a dark disease, a truth too painful to talk about. And I was beginning to wonder if all I was doing was making it worse.” IfsDarkWonderDiseasePainful Author:Kevin Brooks
“My two grandmothers both died of cancer, so I understand how painful and difficult this disease is on the entire family. My first grandmother passed away from bone cancer when I was about 10. It was really horrible. I remember the whole process like it was yesterday.” FirstsTwoWholeRememberProcessDifficultDiseaseDiedCancerPainfulBonesYesterdayHorribleGrandmotherPassed AwayBone Cancer Author:Gisele Bundchen
“Meditation is a process of getting rid of the whole past, of getting rid of all diseases, of getting rid of all the pus that has gathered in you. It is painful, but it is cleansing, and there is no other way to cleanse you.” WayWholePastProcessMeditationDiseasePainfulCleansing Author:Rajneesh
“People talk about the horrors of war, but what weapon has a man invented that even approaches in cruelty some of the commoner diseases? 'Natural' death, almost by defintion, means something slow, smelly and painful.” PeopleMenLifeMeanWarDeathNaturalHorrorDiseaseApproachWeaponsPainfulCrueltyInsanityLife And DeathSmellyHorror Of WarNatural DeathCommoners Book:Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays Source: Facing Unpleasant Facts: Narrative Essays
“There are some arts which to those that possess them are painful, but to those that use them are helpful, a common good to laymen, but to those that practise them grievous. Of such arts there is one which the Greeks call medicine. For the medical man sees terrible sights, touches unpleasant things, and the misfortunes of others bring a harvest of sorrows that are peculiarly his; but the sick by means of the art rid themselves of the worst of evils, disease, suffering, pain and death.” MenMeanArtUsePainSufferingEvilCommonWorstTerribleSorrowDiseaseSickSightMedicinePainfulMedicalGreekHelpfulCall MeMisfortunesPhysiciansHarvestCommon GoodPractiseLaymanMisfortunes Of OthersSuffering Pain Book:Hippocrates Source: Hippocrates