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“When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.”

World Done Answers Break Terrible Blame Mischief Break Out Cholera Typhus

Book:Thrift by Samuel Smiles

Source: Thrift by Samuel Smiles

“War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”

War Adventure Battle Travel Disease Antiwar Tails Funny Travel Just War Soldiers At War Wars And Battles Heads Or Tails Typhus

Book:Flight to Arras

Source: Flight to Arras

“This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.”

Problem Worst Letters Burning Museums Witch Scarlet Opium Shunning Typhus

Book:Choke

Source: Choke

“It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.”

“And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.”

“The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.”

Firsts Has Beens Known Cases Disease Patient Refuse Tea Get Better Craving Nursing Typhus

Book:Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

Source: Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes

“Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.”

Mean War Problem Nations Peace Creation Adventure Disease Tails Toss Betting Life Or Death Heads Or Tails Typhus

Author:Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals”

Trying Animal Successful Effects Produce Quantity Viruses Vaccines Vaccinations Typhus

Author:Jules Henry

“Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it”

Country Doctors Thirds Died Administration Typhus

Author:Jules Henry

“Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread”

Way Problem Study Spread Urgent Contagion Unexplored Typhus

Author:Jules Henry

“My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today”

Firsts I Can Reason Today Animal Species Including Monkeys Laboratory Transmit Predecessors Typhus

Author:Jules Henry