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Life is an incurable disease. Abraham Cowley, 1618-67
The new scourge – syphilis. To this day we don’t know where syphilis came from. Jacob Bronowski, The Ascent of Man 4/13: The Hidden Structure, BBC 1973
This really could be as far as we go ... We’d need to keep in control of disease for ever. Dr Alice Roberts, Horizon: Are We Still Evolving? BBC 2011
Festering disease. Raging pestilence. And agonizing death. But what if the source for all this very human suffering has a strangely non-human origin? Ancient Aliens s3e7: Aliens, Plagues and Epidemics
The worst plague in recorded history. Could this deadly pandemic, known as the Spanish Influenza, have been somehow connected to the incident at Fatima? ibid.
Disease has been responsible for more deaths than every war in human history combined. ibid.
Like the plague of Athens, the Justinian Plague was accompanied by multiple reports of strange sightings in the sky. ibid.
Among antiquities, MacGregor Man is not alone. Throughout the world there are scores of ancient carvings and figurines that seem to depict other-wordly creatures in what some claim is astronaut-like clothing. ibid.
If there was a sinister agenda, why not just attack our planet and be done with it? ibid.
Kerala, India, 2001: A cosmic bang, a massive explosion in the atmosphere, and then a downpour of red rain. ibid.
The return of highly contagious diseases. And is your child at risk? Tonight: Are Your Kids Contagious? ITV 2012
Britain could be facing a widespread outbreak of measles. ibid.
In the fifties and sixties measles was common. There was an epidemic every couple of years. ibid.
In 1965 over a hundred people died from measles. ibid.
In 1988 the MMR triple vaccine was introduced. ibid.
Why are parents turning their backs on vaccines? ibid.
Rob Burrow is one of the most successful rugby league players to ever grace the game … 2019: ‘Dad, I’ve got MND. It’s not good news.’ Tonight: Lindsey and Rob: Living with MND, ITV 2023
On average six people are diagnosed with the condition every day … Rob was given between eighteen months and two years to live. ibid.
They are hailed as Medicine’s greatest triumph ... But today some Americans question if all those vaccines are worth the risk. Frontline: The Vaccine War, PBS 2010
The result: outbreaks of infectious diseases not seen for a generation. ibid.
The science and politics of a bitter vaccine war. ibid.
One fear has come to dominate the vaccine war: the fear that vaccines are responsible for autism. ibid.
Vaccine critics question not only MMR but the many ingredients in vaccines. ibid.
Children who didn’t get the shot had the same risk of developing autism as those who did. The team published the findings in the New England Journal of Medicine. Other studies carried out by researchers in Sweden, Finland, Britain and the US also found no association between MMR and autism. Additional evidence came from Japan. ibid.
When enough people don’t vaccinate, herd immunity begins to crumble. ibid.
We all labour against our own cure, for death is the cure of all diseases. Sir Thomas Browne, Religio Medici
There’s some sort of disease aboard the Enterprise, and it’s spreading. Star Trek: The Next Generation s7e19: Genesis , medic
He wants to screen you for the disease. Star Trek: Voyager s1e15: Jetrel, Janeway to Neelix
Something in the planet’s environment is shielding you from the effects of the virus. If you leave, you risk a recurrence of the disease. Star Trek: Voyager s2e25: Resolutions, Doctor to Janeway & Chakotay
You have contracted a disease: the Vidiian Phage. Star Trek: Voyager s3e15: Coda, Doctor to Janeway
There are just so many diseases you can catch. Dr Ian Mortimer, The Time Traveller’s Guide to Elizabethan England I: The Common People, BBC 2013
In reality children had never been more vulnerable. This was the great age of epidemic: tuberculosis, scarlet fever and typhoid killed thousands of children every year. No amount of money or prayer could keep death from the door. Jeremy Paxman: The Victorians: Home Sweet Home, BBC 2009
The bottom line of this whole thing is one world government. Ein vote, ein right, ein Fuhrer. They want one world, one currency, one race, one religion and if you ever read anything from Global 2000 you’ll find out that they plan to reduce the population of this planet by 25% by the year 2000. And how they going to do that? Designer diseases. Anthony J Hilder, interview Lucifer 2000
Addiction is a choice; it’s not a disease ... Addiction is a behaviour ... Addiction and alcoholism do not meet that criteria for a disease classification. Dr Jeffrey A Schaler
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means. Maimonides
Syphilis was the great Pox. And the fear of syphilis in Victorian England was prevalent. Dr Alan Bates, Royal Free Hospital
I am a sick man ... I am a spiteful man. I am an unpleasant man. I think my liver is diseased. However, I don’t know beans about my disease, and I am not sure what is bothering me. I don’t treat it and never have, though I respect medicine and doctors. Besides, I am extremely superstitious, let’s say sufficiently so to respect medicine. (I am educated enough not to be superstitious, but I am.) No, I refuse to treat it out of spite. You probably will not understand that. Well, but I understand it. Of course I can’t explain to you just whom I am annoying in this case by my spite. I am perfectly well aware that I cannot ‘get even’ with the doctors by not consulting them. I know better than anyone that I thereby injure only myself and no-one else. But still, if I don't treat it, it’s is out of spite. My liver is bad, well then – let it get even worse! Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Notes From Underground
Cure the disease and kill the patient. Francis Bacon, Essays: ‘Of Friendship’, 1625
Confront disease at its onset. Persius, Satires III i 64
Diseases desperate grown
By desperate appliance are relieved
Or not at all. William Shakespeare, Hamlet IV iii 9-11, King to attendants
If a lot of cures are suggested for a disease, it means that the disease is incurable. Anton Chekhov, Uncle Vanya
All over the world people are being afflicted with terrifying symptoms of a seemingly new disease ... ‘I noticed these bizarre filaments coming out of the lesions.’ The Unexplained Files, Discovery Science 2013
More than 20,000 people around the world claim the same set of symptoms – sores that cover the body, chronic fatigue, and strangest of all mysterious multi-coloured fibres that seem to sprout from under their skin. In 2002 a victim’s mother named the unexplained condition Morgellons. ibid.
The mystery fibres don’t appears to be textiles of any kind. ibid.
A physician’s subject of study is necessarily the patient, and his first field for observation is the hospital. But if clinical observation teaches him to know the form and course of diseases, it cannot suffice to make him understand their nature; to this end he must penetrate into the body to find which of the internal parts are injured in their functions. That is why dissection of cadavers and microscopic study of diseases were soon added to clinical observation. But to-day these various methods no longer suffice; we must push investigation further and, in analysing the elementary phenomena of organic bodies, must compare normal with abnormal states. We showed elsewhere how incapable is anatomy alone to take account of vital phenomena, and we saw that we must add study of all physico-chemical conditions which contribute necessary elements to normal or pathological manifestations of life. This simple suggestion already makes us feel that the laboratory of a physiologist-physician must be the most complicated of all laboratories, because he has to experiment with phenomena of life which are the most complex of all natural phenomena. Claude Bernard, An Introduction to the Study of Experimental Medicine 1865