Quote by Marcel Proust

Read Mann's notes, which contain precise accounts of cholera and its symptoms, and observe how careful he is throughout his fiction in getting medical…

— Philip Kitcher

Now a cholera epidemic was sweeping through Southeast Asia and south Asia in the early 1970s, so I started medical school and I joined…

— Peter Agre

Epidemiologists routinely turn to models to predict the progression of an infectious disease. Fighting public suspicion of these models is as old as modern…

— Zeynep Tufekci

“Michael Oldstone, in his book Viruses, Plagues, and History, wrote: “The obliteration of diseases that impinge on our health is a regal yardstick of…

— Molly Caldwell Crosby

“I began to come into close contact with poverty, with hunger, with disease, with the inability to cure a child because of a lack…

— Ernesto Che Guevara

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

— Thomas Fuller

We have chosen to write the biography of our disease because we love it platonically - as Amy Lowell loved Keats - and have…

— Hans Zinsser

The cholera most forcibly teaches us our mutual connection. Nothing shows more powerfully the duty of every man to look after the needs of…

— Titus Salt

“Face it, George – unlike cholera, death is the only disease everyone is guaranteed to get.’ Heath nodded slowly. ‘But usually only once, Hamish.…

— Nigel Holloway

I see in him (Dr. Max Gerson) one of the most eminent medical geniuses in the history of medicine...he was greatly impeded by adverse…

— Albert Schweitzer

"Dr. Munro, sir," said he, "I am a walking museum. You could fit what ISN'T the matter with me on to the back of…

— Arthur Conan Doyle

“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the…

— David Quammen