Get Well Soon: History's Worst Plagues And The Heroes Who Fought Them Quotes
"It does appear that we are living in a world where the word plague has shockingly little meaning for many."
"We have been living in an age of improbable luck."
"Forgetting is soothing and probably in our nature."
"Because when plagues erupt, some people behave amazingly well."
"Other people behave like superstitious lunatics and add to the death toll."
"A lot of the measures taken against the plagues discussed in this book will seem stunningly obvious."
"They were living, breathing, joking, burping people, who could be happy or sad, funny or boring."
"Knowing about pop culture doesn’t make you dumb; it makes you a person who is interested in the world you live in."
"We will be so much better off if the absolute maximum number of present-day and future people handle the disease with the aplomb of some of the best figures in this book."
"They stared at one another with such unaccustomed bashfulness and confused oddness as if every sinner beheld their own iniquities in the faces of their companions."
"God be praised, though we have no noses we have every one a mouth and that by spreading of the table seems at present to be the most useful member."
"A chap naturally wouldn’t tell, when he knew it would damn him for life."
"Is it as bad as that? Should you want to have anything to do with a person who had it?"
"The old woman comes with a nutshell full of the matter of the best sort of smallpox, and asks what vein you please to have opened."
"The children or young patients play together all the rest of the day, and are in perfect health to the eighth."
"The French ambassador says pleasantly that they take the smallpox here by way of diversion as they do the waters in other countries."
"The gentlemen of the 'No Nose’d Club' were unhappily dissolved but liberated from shame about their disease."
"He drank urine, he ate feces, he saved feces, smeared feces on the walls and on himself."
"A night with Venus, a lifetime with mercury."
"Greater love hath no man than this, that a man lay down his life for his friends."
"If I have any credit with God, I shall intercede for all who are in the leproserie."
"The servant of the Word became a suffering servant, leper with the lepers, during the last four years of his life."
"We like our pastor. He builds our houses himself, he gives us tea, biscuits, sugar and clothes. He takes good care of us and doesn’t let us want for anything."
"Sometimes, confessing the sick, whose sores are full of worms like cadavers in the grave, I have to hold my nose."
"Come on, Jef, my boy, this is your life’s work!"
"It's a joy to be alive on a day like this. And I do feel alive, more truly alive than I've felt in twenty years."
"They were not only patients but teachers and friends, the years I spent with them were the most significant of my life."
"If people felt as good as I did, nobody would make wars."
"Leadership must make whatever horror exists concrete. Only then will people be able to break it apart."
"Telling people that things are fine is not the same as making them fine."
"For identification and description, it was decided to follow von Economo in terming the illness encephalitis lethargica, a name which has the right of priority and indicates a characteristic clinical feature."
"We are fortunate today to have organizations like the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the World Health Organization that track how diseases are progressing and report these findings."
"Two chimps, Becky and Lucy ... showed that once their frontal lobes were removed, they lost the capacity to solve simple problems."
"worrying about stuff serves a purpose. It’s not fun and can keep you awake at night, but it means you are capable of caring and solving problems."
"Every patient probably loses something by this operation, some spontaneity, some sparkle, some flavor of the personality."
"He looked up at us, smiling. I thought I was seeing a circus act."
"You could never talk about a successful lobotomy. You might as well talk about a successful automobile accident."
"If you can bear to hear the truth you’ve spoken / Twisted by knaves to make a trap for fools ... Then you'll be a Man, my son!"
"Our main problem now is not that anything is wrong with the Salk vaccine, but that something is wrong with the people who won’t take it."
"There is no such thing as failure. You can only fail if you stop too soon."
"The object is not to put down the other, but to raise up the other."
"People are just going to keep making the same dumb mistakes every single time."
"The Lobotomist: A Maverick Medical Genius and His Tragic Quest to Rid the World of Mental Illness."
"The Strange and Curious History of Lobotomy."
"The Lobotomy File, Part Two: One Doctor’s Legacy."
"The Scary Days When Thousands Were Lobotomized on Long Island."
"Nobel Panel Urged to Rescind Prize for Lobotomies."
"The Great Influenza: The Story of the Deadliest Pandemic in History."
"America’s Forgotten Pandemic: The Influenza of 1918."
"Asleep: The Forgotten Epidemic That Remains One of Medicine’s Greatest Mysteries."
"Encephalitis Lethargica: During and After the Epidemic."
"Recovery from the Passage of an Iron Bar Through the Head."
"The Work of a Chronic Typhoid Germ Distributor."
"Terrible Typhoid Mary: A True Story of the Deadliest Cook in America."
"The Lobotomy Letters: The Making of American Psychosurgery."
"Last Resort: Psychosurgery and the Limits of Medicine."
"Experimenting on the Past: The Enigma of von Economo’s Encephalitis Lethargica."
"‘Please Let Me Put Him in a Macaroni Box’—the Spanish Influenza of 1918 in Philadelphia."
"The measure of a man's real character is what he would do if he knew he would never be found out."
"He who has health, has hope; and he who has hope, has everything."
"The best way to predict the future is to invent it."