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Disease Quotes by Rene Dubos
- Men are naturally most impressed by diseases which have obvious manifestations, yet some of their worst enemies creep on them unobtrusively.
- ...Search for the cause may be a hopeless pursuit because most disease states are the indirect outcome of a constellation of circumstances.
- To ward off disease or recover health, people as a rule find it easier to depend on healers than to attempt the more difficult task…
- The mechanisms of vis medicatrix naturæ—the most healing power of nature—are so effective that most diseases are self-terminating.
- Eradication of microbial disease is a will-o'-the-wisp; pursuing it leads into a morass of hazy biological concepts and half truths.
- ... each type of civilization has had diseases peculiar to it and at each period the various social groups in any community also have differed…
- It is a disturbing fact that Western civilization, which claims to have achieved the highest standard of health in history, finds itself compelled to spend…
- Clearly, health and disease cannot be defined merely in terms of anatomical, physiological, or mental attributes. Their real measure is the ability of the individual…
- But solving problems of disease is not the same thing as creating health and happiness. (...) Health and happiness are the expression of the manner…
- But too often the goal of the planners is a universal gray state of health corresponding to absence of disease rather than to a positive…
- The very process of living is a continual interplay between the individual and his environment, often taking the form of a struggle resulting in injury…
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