There are no specific diseases only specific disease…

The specific disease doctrine is the grand refuge of weak, uncultured, unstable minds, such as now rule in the medical profession. There are no…

— Florence Nightingale

Most fatal diseases had their own specific odor, but ... none was as specific as old age.

— Gabriel Garcia Marquez

The very first requirement in a hospital is that it should do the sick no harm.

— Florence Nightingale

We know nothing of the principle of health, the positive of which pathology is the negative, except from observation and experience. And nothing but…

— Florence Nightingale

“It is often thought that medicine is the curative process. It is no such thing; medicine is the surgery of functions, as surgery proper…

— Florence Nightingale

It may seem a strange principle to enunciate as the very first requirement in a hospital that it should do the sick no harm.

— Florence Nightingale

What person doesn't search online about their disease after they are diagnosed?

— Howard Rheingold

We can figure it out, it's not like we all have a disease.

— Biz Stone

Presidential ambition is a disease that can only be cured by embalming fluid .

— John McCain

Let us not seek our disease out of ourselves; 'tis in us, and planted in our bowels; and the mere fact that we do…

— Seneca the Younger

He who cures a disease may be the skillfullest, but he that prevents it is the safest physician.

— Thomas Fuller

Conceit is a weird disease - it makes everybody sick except the guy who has it.

— James Dobson

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

“As a special branch of general philosophy, pathogenesis had never been explored. In my opinion it had never been approached in a strictly scientific…

— Blaise Cendrars

The doctor who diagnosed me with ALS, or motor neuron disease, told me that it would kill me in two or three years.

— Stephen Hawking