“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious--that is, a disease not understood--in an era in which medicine's central premise is that all diseases can be cured.” LastsFantasyCenturyDiseaseUnderstoodMedicineResponseInspiredCancerErasPremisesCapriciousTuberculosis Book:Illness as metaphor Source: Illness as metaphor
“I have a healthy disrespect for religion. I really do. When Columbus came to this country in 1492 he brought syphilis, diphtheria, tuberculosis, influenza and Christianity. The diseases were curable.” CountryChristianityHealthyDiseaseDisrespectColumbusTuberculosisSyphilisInfluenza Author:David Feherty
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling of being unwanted.” FeelingsTodayDiseaseChristian InspirationalHelping OthersButterflyBeing In LoveUnwantedCalcuttaBeing SadBlessed MotherTuberculosisLeprosyHunger For LoveHungry For LoveDisease And Death Author:Mother Teresa
“The poison of skepticism becomes, like alcoholism, tuberculosis, and some other diseases, much more virulent in a hitherto virgin soil.” DiseasePoisonSoilSkepticismVirginsAlcoholismTuberculosis Book:Selected Essays: 1934-1943 Source: Selected Essays: 1934-1943
“The biggest disease today is not leprosy or cancer or tuberculosis, but rather the feeling or being unwanted, uncared for, deserted by everybody. The greatest evil is the lack of love and charity, the terrible indifference towards one's neighbor who lives at the roadside, the victim of exploitation, corruption, poverty, and disease.” FeelingsTodayEvilWomenPovertyTerribleDiseaseVictimCharityCancerCorruptionNeighborIndifferenceExploitationUnwantedDesertedLack Of LoveTuberculosisRoadsideLeprosy Book:My Life for the Poor Source: My Life for the Poor
“By all means, there should be no children when either mother or father suffers from such diseases as tuberculosis, gonorrhea, syphilis, cancer, epilepsy, insanity, drunkenness and mental disorders. In the case of the mother, heart disease, kidney trouble and pelvic deformities are also a serious bar to childbearing No more children should be born when the parents, though healthy themselves, find that their children are physically or mentally defective.” ShouldHeartMeanChildrenMotherSufferingFatherParentBornCasesTroubleSeriousHealthyDiseaseCancerBarsInsanityDisorderDrunkennessKidneysDefectiveHeart DiseaseMental DisorderDeformityTuberculosisSyphilisEpilepsyChildbearingGonorrhea Author:Margaret Sanger
“New drugs and surgical techniques offer promise in the fight against cancer, Alzheimer's, tuberculosis, AIDS, and a host of other life-threatening diseases. Animal research has been, and continues to be, fundamental to advancements in medicine.” Has BeensFightingAnimalPromiseDrugOffersDiseaseResearchFundamentalsMedicineCancerAidsTechniqueHostThreateningAdvancementAlzheimerAlzheimer'sTuberculosisAnimal Research Author:Daniel Kahikina Akaka