Disease

Examples

• Contaminated water is made safe by boiling for a few minutes, because the strong heat destroys the disease-producing germs. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• But a disease killed all the vines fifteen years ago, and since that time no wine has been made. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• The detective-fever isn't an easy disease to deal with, under THESE circumstances. Wilkie Collins. The Moonstone.
• During the intervals of pain from this grievous disease, he spent many cheerful hours, conversing in the most agreeable and instructive manner. Benjamin Franklin. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin.
• Morning broke; and the old woman saw the corpse, marked with the fatal disease, close to her; her wrist was livid with the hold loosened by death. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• No one would take a census of prostitution, illegitimacy, adultery, or venereal disease for a statement of reliable facts. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The Rubicon, I felt, was passed; and it behoved me well to reflect what I should do on this hither side of disease and danger. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• The extra work which is thrown upon the nervous system through seeing, reading, writing, and sewing with defective eyes is recognized by all physicians as an important cause of disease. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The sense of disease and mortality, the insecurity and the unsatisfactoriness of all happiness, descended upon the mind of Gautama. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.
• Plenty of fresh air, light, and pure water are the watchwords against disease. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• The episode of Nettie Crane's timely rescue from disease had been one of the most satisfying incidents of her connection with Gerty's charitable work. Edith Wharton. The House of Mirth.
• Louis Pasteur’s work, however, marks the first definite and important results in the study of bacteriology, and he is the father of the germ theory of disease. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• The first symptom of the disease was the death-warrant, which in no single instance had been followed by pardon or reprieve. Mary Shelley. The Last Man.
• My natural grief for my child's mother turned to disease; my natural love for my child turned to disease. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
• Men made bridges before there was a science of bridge-building; they cured disease before they knew medicine. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• The diseases of a State are like the heads of a hydra; they multiply when they are cut off. Plato. The Republic.
• I have already observed that they are subject to no diseases, and therefore can have no need of physicians. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• The tremendously complex nature of the chemical reactions which take place in the lead-acid storage battery also renders it an easy prey to many troublesome diseases. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
• On the other hand, bacteria are the cause of many of the most dangerous diseases, such as typhoid fever, tuberculosis, influenza, and la grippe. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• And even though the pernicious drug craving is not created, considerable harm is done to the child, because its body is left weak and non-resistant to diseases of infancy and childhood. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• Pasteur now applied his energies to the study of virulent diseases, following the principles of his earlier investigations. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Honest diseases they honestly cured; and if a man was wounded, they applied the proper remedies, and then let him eat and drink what he liked. Plato. The Republic.
• The diseases they were subject to still continue, without increasing or diminishing. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
• It is the manner of communicating these diseases; it is the subtle way in which they go about. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
• Many delicate operations can now be performed for the relief of long-continued diseases which before would have been hazardous or impossible. William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Cancers and tumors of certain kinds and a number of skin diseases are said to be made to disappear by their use. Various. The Wonder Book of Knowledge.
• The spirits of evil bring mal adies upon us; the gods heal the diseases that afflict us. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• For all bilious diseases or disorders arising from torpidity of the liver, dyspepsia, bilious headache, costiveness, sour stomach, jaundice, heartburn, nervousness, restlessness, etc. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• For headache, constipation, biliousness, dyspepsia, or all diseases arising from torpidity of the liver. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• Changing conditions frequently bring with them new diseases. H. G. Wells. The Outline of History_Being a Plain History of Life and Mankind.

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