Not until the beginning of the 20th century did Europe's urban populations finally become self-sustaining: before then, constant immigration of healthy peasants from the countryside was necessary to make up for the constant deaths of city dwellers from crowd diseases.
Jared DiamondTags: history civilization disease
If seeing her an hour before her last
Weak cough into all blackness I could yet
Be held by chalk-white walls
- The Consumptive. Belsen 1945
Tags: art wwii death guilt disease belsen
Here they go cruising for a fortnight up in parts where everyone is dead of radiation, and all that they can catch is measles!
Nevil ShuteTags: humor death illness disease measles radioactivity submarines
If you walked into your local convenience store and bought a package of cigars, you would notice that it carries a label warning of the potential dangers of cigar smoke. Yet research suggests that cigar smoking poses a hazard only to moderate to heavy cigar smokers, who comprise less than 1 percent of the adult population. More than 97 percent of American adults, however, eat animal foods, and despite much research demonstrating the connection between the consumption of animal products and disease, we are not warned of these dangers.
Melanie JoyTags: meat health disease meat-industry
…does not need Facebook, Twitter and Stumble Upon. She is a whole social media network all by herself.
Pandora PoikilosTags: social-commentary disease
The physician should not treat the disease but the patient who is suffering from it
MaimonidesTags: humanism medicine disease cure nurse
No disease that can be treated by diet should be treated with any other means.
MaimonidesHere is the chance for young women and young men of devotion to lift again the banner of humanity and to walk toward a civilization which will be free and intelligent; which will be healthy and unafraid, and build in the world a culture led by black folk and joined by peoples of all colors and all races - without poverty, ignorance and disease!
W.E.B. Du BoisTags: youth civilization poverty devotion disease
Today we fight. Tomorrow we fight. The day after, we fight. And if this disease plans on whipping us, it better bring a lunch, 'cause it's gonna have a long day doing it.
Jim BeaverTags: life inspirational strength courage disease cancer
Health and disease are the same thing—vital action intended to preserve, maintain, and protect the body. There is no more reason for treating disease than there is for treating health.
Herbert M. SheltonTags: health medicine healing disease natural-hygiene
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