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Two out of three child deaths in Africa and South-east Asia are due to just six diseases – tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea.
— Disease
Two out of three child deaths in Africa and South-east Asia are due to just six diseases – tuberculosis, malaria, HIV/AIDS, measles, pneumonia and diarrhoea.
[Diseases] crucify the soul of man, attenuate our bodies, dry them, wither them, shrivel them up like old apples, make them as so many anatomies.
A bodily disease which we look upon as whole and entire within itself, may, after all, be but a symptom of some ailment in the spiritual part.
The horseman on the white horse was clad in a showy and barbarous attire. [...] While his horse continued galloping, he was bending his bow in order to spread pestilence abroad. At his back swung the brass quiver filled with poisoned arrows, containing the germs of all diseases.
As man, perhaps, the moment of his breath,Grows with his growth, and strengthens with his strength.
But just disease to luxury succeeds,And ev'ry death its own avenger breeds.
It may also strike you, my readers, as quite shocking when I tell you that there is no such thing, basically, as disease. There are instead only processes. What you think of disease is instead the result of an exaggeration or overextension of perfectly normal body processes. You are not attacked by viruses, for instance, for all kinds of viruses exist normally in the body. There are no KILLER viruses, then but viruses that go beyond their usual bounds.
O, he's a limb, that has but a disease;Mortal, to cut it off; to cure it, easy.
Diseases desperate grown,Or not at all.
This apoplexy is, as I take it, a kind of lethargy, an't please your lordship; a kind of sleeping in the blood, a whoreson tingling.
Before the curing of a strong disease,On their departure most of all show evil.
I'll forbear;For the sound man.
The remedy is worse than the disease.
Apoplexie, and Lethargie,As forlorn hope, assault the enemy.
Disease is an experience of mortal mind. It is fear made manifest on the body. Divine Science takes away this physical sense of discord, just as it removes a sense of moral or mental inharmony.
That dire disease, whose ruthless powerWithers the beauty's transient flower.
Against diseases here the strongest fence,Is the defensive vertue, abstinence.
Extreme remedies are very appropriate for extreme diseases.
