Diseases

Examples

• 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.
• In Australia the problem of the transmission to the natives of various diseases, even by Europeans in apparent health, confronted his intelligence. Walter Libby. An Introduction to the History of Science.
• Ah, my love, my love, he said, it is in the subtle poison of such abuses to breed such diseases. Charles Dickens. Bleak House.
• Epidemic diseases, I believed, were often heralded by a gasping, sobbing, tormented, long-lamenting east wind. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
• Certain classes of diseases have also long been known as zymotic, or ferment diseases. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
• One reads in the report of the Vice Commission that many public hospitals in Chicago refuse to care for venereal diseases. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
• How many lives have been saved, and how far advanced has become the knowledge of the human body and its painful diseases, by this beneficent remedy! William Henry Doolittle. Inventions in the Century.
• Twill cure thy diseases. Hemingway, Ernest. For Whom The Bell Tolls.
• The parent will be most awake to the vices or diseases in his child of which he is most sensible within himself. Plato. The Republic.
• I tell thee, the fiend can impose diseases for the very purpose of removing them, in order to bring into credit some diabolical fashion of cure. Walter Scott. Ivanhoe.
• Liver pads are recommended for all diseases arising from a disordered liver. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
• The bedding and clothing of persons suffering with diphtheria, tuberculosis, and other germ diseases should always be boiled and hung to dry in the bright sunlight. Bertha M. Clark. General Science.
• They catch opinions, as diseases are caught--when they are in the air. Plato. The Republic.
• He was supposed to cure their diseases by trampling upon their breasts or backs or standing on the back of their necks. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
• Yes, he said, they do certainly give very strange and newfangled names to diseases. Plato. The Republic.
• And to have entered into the nature of diseases would only have added to his breaches of medical propriety. George Eliot. Middlemarch.

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