…but this is the real objection to that torrent of modern talk about treating crime as disease, about making prison merely a hygienic environment like a hospital, of healing sin by slow scientific methods. The...

Diseased organs get the most attention.

They told us love was a disease. They told us it would kill us in the end.For the very first time I realize, that this, too, might also be a lie.

Nature had found the perfect place to hide the yellow fever virus. It seeded itself and grew in the blood, blooming yellow and running red.

We are looking at an emergence of new diseases and a resurgence of old diseases, and redistribution of old diseases on a global scale.

One feature of the usual script for plague: the disease invariably comes from somewhere else. The names for syphilis, when it began its epidemic sweep through Europe in the last decade of the fifteenth century...

Illinois then had no legislation providing compensation for accident or disease caused by occupation.

Being overweight or obese makes you more likely to develop heart disease, cancers, diabetes, bone and joint problems and surgical risks.

Among the women who made larger reductions in saturated and trans fat we saw trends toward reduction in heart disease.

The effort to cure disease has been, without doubt, the greatest curse that has ever been perpetrated upon the human race. The idea that disease is something that must be cured, the idea that it...

Disease is an experience of a so-called mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body.

I’ve always been very involved in anything that had to do with lung disease or cancer.

Here is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy...

In more ancient times the life was simpler, but now the discovery of all these different medicines for curing dyspepsia shows that people are suffering from this disease. In this country we know that there...

For people who have well-established disease, the vaccine can do nothing to return dead brain cells and certainly can’t return memories, … although it could potentially arrest the disease in whatever stage the individual is...

The passions are the humors of the mind, and the least excess sickens our judgment. If the disease spreads to the mouth, your reputation will be in danger.

why, for instance, only 2 per cent of Europeans contract the disease as opposed to 13 per cent of African Americans, 17 per cent of U.S. Latinos and up to 50 per cent of Native...

Every physician almost hath his favourite disease.

Prejudice is a disease. And when they come for you, or refuse your worth, I will be ready for their stones. I belong to you.

I know inside that there is more to life than this mortal coil. It’s a very shallow minded person who thinks that someone is born and dies and that’s it. I haven’t gone through thirty...

It looks like they escaped any movement of the disease from Broward County. They got real lucky.

Evil habits, in which men indulge, are the chief cause of disease in the physical as well as the mental state.

There are, in truth, no specialties in medicine, since to know fully many of the most important diseases a man must be familiar with their manifestations in many organs.

There is a potential for widespread disease, greater malnutrition and the displacement of significant numbers of people.

Assumption is one dreadful and incurable disease, which sticks to the soul and wiggles across the skin.

Fear is a disease of mind we inherit from society.

A larger outbreak of BSE or some other livestock disease could devastate rural economies,

The drug I take is called schizophrenia, among other labels, which I desperately want to put away. I want to put the drug of schizophrenia down, and I want to put down the stigma surrounding...

Your mental problem becomes a solution when it can be used to solve problems.

catch” anything unless you think you can, and thinking you can is inviting it to you with your thought. You are also inviting illness if you are listening to people talking about their illness. As...

To paraphrase Lucretius, there’s nothing more useful than to watch a man or woman in times of contagious deadly disease peril combined with his or her assumptions of financial adversity to discern what kind of...

The age-old, seemingly inexorable process whereby diseases acquire meanings (by coming to stand for the deepest fears) and inflict stigma is always worth challenging, and it does seem to have more limited credibility in the...