Bills Quote by William Osler

“The infection of kusang (the company of bad people) is worse than tuberculosis. TB will kill a person for just one life whereas this…

— Dada Bhagwan

This is a mighty wonder: in the discharge from the lungs alone, which is not particularly dangerous, the patients do not despair of themselves,…

— Aretaeus of Cappadocia

Patients rarely die of the disease from which they suffer. Secondary or terminal infections are the real cause of death.

— 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

“death is of capital importance for a continuation of life, because death carries away all the decaying organism in the way of life.”

— Kaiten Nukariya

“Having always observed that most of them who constantly took in the weekly Bills of Mortality made little other use of them than to…

— John Graunt

And as in men's bodies, so in government, that disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.

— Pliny the Younger

Pneumococcus is a fairly common cause of pneumonia and [raises the] risk of death in older adults.

— Paul A. Offit

“Malady of mortality”

— Anne Rice

“The first is the courage to confront the reality of mortality—the”

— Atul Gawande

Mortality is very brief but immeasurably important.

— Joseph B. Wirthlin

By medicine life may be prolonged, yet death will seize the doctor too.

— William Shakespeare