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“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.”

“Nature is that lovely lady to whom we owe polio, leprosy, smallpox, syphilis, tuberculosis, cancer.”

Cancer Lovely Cynical Polio Smallpox Tuberculosis Syphilis Leprosy Lovely Lady

Author:Stanley Norman Cohen

“Tuberculosis, starvation, fatigue, and there are many who have no desire to live.”

Desire Fatigue Starvation Desire To Live Tuberculosis Buchenwald

Author:Edward R. Murrow

“Until the 19th century, the term 'to consume' was used mainly in its negative connotations of 'destruction' and 'waste'. Tuberculosis was known as 'consumption', that is, a wasting disease. Then economists came up with a bizarre theory, which has become widely accepted, according to which the basis of a sound economy is a continual increase in the consumption (that is, waste) of goods”

Used Sound Term Known Economy Century Theory Disease Waste Negative Destruction Bases Increase Accepted Goods Consumption Economist Bizarre 19th Century Connotation Tuberculosis

Author:Petr Skrabanek

“Reports of illegal migrants carrying deadly diseases such as swine flu, dengue fever, Ebola virus and tuberculosis are particularly concerning.”

Disease Reports Illegal Fever Viruses Flu Migrants Ebola Swine Tuberculosis Ebola Virus Deadly Diseases Swine Flu

Author:Phil Gingrey

“Whatever happened to the good old days: you know, dirty attics, tuberculosis and general all-round suffering?”

Knows Suffering Happened Rounds Dirty Nasty Old Days Attics Good Old Days Tuberculosis

Author:Arnold Wesker

“Patients have been cured almost instantaneously of...lupus...,cancer ...,ulcers..., tuberculosis ...In a few seconds, at most a few hours, the symptoms disappear and the anatomic lesions mend. The miracle is characterized by extreme acceleration of the normal process of healing.”

Has Beens Age Process Hours Dark Healing Normal Miracle Patient Cancer Extremes Disappear Medical Seconds Symptoms Dark Ages Acceleration Tuberculosis Ulcers

Author:Alexis Carrel

“In the Mortality Bills, pneumonia is an easy second, to tuberculosis; indeed in many cities the death-rate is now higher and it has become, to use the phrase of Bunyan 'the captain of the men of death.'”

Men Use Science Easy Cities He Man Higher Bills Rate Ease Phrases Mortality Captains Tuberculosis Pneumonia

Author:William Osler

“The man of understanding can no more sit quiet and resigned while his country lets its literature decay, and lets good writing meet with contempt, than a good doctor could sit quiet and contented while some ignorant child was infecting itself with tuberculosis under the impression that it was merely eating jam tarts.”

Men Writing Children Country Literature Understanding He Man Quiet Letting Go Eating Doctors Impression Ignorant Contempt Decay Jam Good Writing Resigned Tarts Tuberculosis Good Doctors

Author:Ezra Pound

“During the 1960s, one neighborhood in San Francisco had the lowest income, the highest unemployment rate, the highest proportion of families with incomes under four thousand dollars a year, the least educational attainment, the highest tuberculosis rate, and the highest proportion of substandard housing ... That neighborhood was called Chinatown. Yet, in 1965, there were only five persons of Chinese ancestry committed to prison in the entire state of California.”

“The biggest public health challenge is rebuilding health systems. In other words, if you look at cholera or maternal mortality or tuberculosis in Haiti, they're major problems in Haiti, but the biggest problem is rebuilding systems.”

Ifs Looks Problem Challenges Majors Mortality Public Health Haiti Rebuilding Cholera Major Problems Tuberculosis Health System Health Challenges

Author:Paul Farmer

“We've taken on the major health problems of the poorest - tuberculosis, maternal mortality, AIDS, malaria - in four countries. We've scored some victories in the sense that we've cured or treated thousands and changed the discourse about what is possible.”

Country Problem Taken Four Changed Victory Majors Aids Treated Mortality Discourse Hiv Poorest Malaria Hiv Aids Health Problems Tuberculosis

Author:Paul Farmer

“I wanted to explore cancer not just biologically, but metaphorically. The idea that tuberculosis in the 19th century possessed the same kind of frightening and decaying quality was very interesting to me, and it seemed that one could explore the idea that every age defined its own illness.”

Kind Ideas Age Wanted Interesting Quality Century Cancer Illness Defined Possessed Frightening Very Interesting 19th Century Tuberculosis

Author:Siddhartha Mukherjee

“This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves, even although near the last. Concerning Tuberculosis.”

Lasts Science Wonder Dangerous Despair Disease Patient Lungs Discharge Tuberculosis

Author:Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“To prove that tuberculosis is caused by the invasion of bacilli, and that it is a parasitic disease primarily caused by the growth and multiplication of bacilli, it is necessary to isolate the bacilli from the body, to grow them in pure culture until they are freed from every disease product of the animal organism, and, by introducing isolated bacilli into animals, to reproduce the same morbid condition that is known to follow from inoculation with spontaneously developed tuberculous material.”

Body Culture Grows Growth Animal Known Conditions Materials Products Pure Prove Disease Isolated Introducing Organisms Invasion Morbid Multiplication Tuberculosis

Book:Essays of Robert Koch

Source: Essays of Robert Koch

“In high school, I won a prize for an essay on tuberculosis. When I got through writing the essay, I was sure I had the disease.”

Writing School Disease High School Prize Essays Tuberculosis

Author:Constance Baker Motley