Dangerous Quote by Aretaeus of Cappadocia

“TB is like living with a bomb in your lungs. You just lie around very quietly hoping it won't go off”

— Sylvia Plath

“His practice primarily screened people’s lungs for tuberculosis, which was rampant at the time.”

— Deepak Chopra

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,…

— William Osler

“Doctor, what’s wrong with me?’ the doctor is likely to say, ‘Well, you have the flu,’ or ‘You have tuberculosis,’ or ‘You have cancer.’…

— Yuval Noah Harari

MY DOCTOR phoned and said you don't deserve this news, but your lungs are crystal clear'.

— Nicholas Haslam

We must not allow Covid to turn us into a country of hypochondriacs, fearful of every minor symptom. Yes, of course if you may…

— Julia Hartley-Brewer

“What a foreign concept it is to die, to cough up what you are as if it is no more than mucus pooled at…

— Robert Jackson Bennett

With the modern diseases (once TB, now cancer) the romantic idea that the disease expresses the character is invariably extended to assert that the…

— Susan Sontag

I mean we grew up in a TB bus and I became a TB doctor.

— Paul Farmer

Lungs, they do not like to be messed with. I give pneumonia one star and that's for the silent p.

— Justine Larbalestier

“As you can see, when I write, I like to look like I’m recovering from tuberculosis.”

— Mindy Kaling

“never forget that it is not a pneumonia, but pneumonic man who is your patient”

— Anonymous