“The Centers for Disease Control says that there are 76 million cases of food poisoning in the United States every year, 350,000 hospitalizations, and 5,000 deaths. Is that a lot or a little? Well, it depends on how you look at it.” YearsWellsLooksLittlesStatesUnitedMillionsCasesUnited StatesDependsDiseasePoisoningFood Poisoning Author:Marion Nestle
“Mercury poisoning sounds like a rich man's disease . . . like something you might get from the leather seats in your Lamborghini.” MenMightSoundRichDiseaseSeatsLeatherLike SomethingRich ManPoisoningMercuryLamborghini Author:Jeremy Piven
“Well, the most terrible fear that anybody should have is not war, is not a disease, not cancer or heart problems or food poisoning - it's a man or a woman without a sense of humor.” MenShouldWellsHeartWarProblemTerribleDiseaseShould HaveCancerSense Of HumorPoisoningFood PoisoningHeart Problems Author:Jonathan Winters
“I know girls who pine for it. They like to play dress-up and pretend being Vor ladies of old, rescued from menace by romantic Vor youths. For some reason they never play 'dying in childbirth', or 'vomiting your guts out from the red dysentery', or 'weaving till you go blind and crippled from arthritis and dye poisoning', or 'infanticide'. Well, they do die romantically of disease sometimes, but somehow it's always an illness that makes you interestingly pale and everyone sorry and doesn't involve losing bowel control.” KnowsWellsSometimesReasonPlayDiesGirlDyingYouthDiseaseLosingRedDressesBlindSorryIllnessGutsPaleChildbirthMenacePoisoningCrippledWeavingArthritisVomitingInfanticideDysentery Author:Lois McMaster Bujold
“Why are you smiling?' 'I'm relieved,' I said honestly. 'I was worried I'd given myself cadmium poisoning, or I had some mysterious disease. This is just someone trying to kill me.” TryingSaidGivenDiseaseHonestlyMysteriousWorriedKill MeRelievedPoisoning Book:The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two Source: The Wise Man's Fear: The Kingkiller Chronicle: Day Two
“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
“All disease, at some period or other of its course, is more or less a reparative process, not necessarily accompanied with suffering: an effort of nature to remedy a process of poisoning or of decay, which has taken place weeks, months, sometimes years beforehand, unnoticed.” YearsSometimesSufferingCoursesProcessEffortTakenWeekMonthsPeriodsDiseaseDecayRemedyNursingUnnoticedPoisoning Book:Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not Source: Notes on Nursing: What it Is, and what it is Not