George Bernard Shaw Quotes

Physicians, when the cause of disease is discovered, consider that the cure is discovered.

In all Diseases strengthen the part of the Body afflicted.

Inflammation as understood in man and the higher animals is a phenomenon that almost always results from the intervention of some pathogenic microbe.

The body's immune system is like any other system of the body. Each of them have their vital function for the human host.

Many key concepts concerning the nature of immunity have originated from the very practical need to control virus infections.

I want to cure many diseases and save children's lives.

The art of medicine consists in amusing the patient while nature cures the disease.

If we become ill, modern medicine can work healing miracles.

There are two main types of immunity to an infection. Innate immunity comes from circulating cells that attack any invader the body views as foreign. Adaptive immunity is specific to the pathogen presented. Through adaptive response, immune cells are programmed to secrete antibodies that are primed to target a viral invader.

I liked medicine. I liked helping people. I liked the biology of it and understanding how the body works.

You're a disease. And I'm the cure.

There is no good theory of disease which does not at once suggest a cure.

It is found easier, by the short-sighted victims of disease, to palliate their torments by medicine, than to prevent them by regimen

Disease is cured by the body itself, not by doctors or remedies.

It's like any other part of your body - your mental health gets sick, and it needs treatment.

For extreme diseases, extreme methods of cure, as to restriction, are most suitable.

When women and men have approximately equal life expectancies, it seems to be because women die not only in childbirth (fewer than thought) but about equal from diseases; poor sanitation and water; inadequate healthcare; and diseases of malnutrition. In industrialized societies, early deaths are caused more by diseases triggered by stress, which breaks down the immune system. It is since stress has become the key factor that men have died so much sooner than women.

There is only one constant element in immunity, whether innate or acquired, and that is phagocytosis. The extension and importance of this factor can no longer be denied.

To the sick, indeed, nature is sick, but to the well, a fountain of health.

Trash is something you get rid of - or disease. I'm not something you get rid of.

In examining disease, we gain wisdom about anatomy and physiology and biology. In examining the person with disease, we gain wisdom about life.

For a sick man the world begins at his pillow and ends at the foot of his bed.

Those diseases which medicines do not cure, iron cures; those which iron cannot cure, fire cures; and those which fire cannot cure, are to be reckoned wholly incurable.

First thing about being a patient-you have to learn patience.

Once you catch a disease and survive, you can't get it again.