Typhus Quotes

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  • Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it

  • War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

    Travel   War   Adventure  
    Antoine de Saint Exupery (1942). “Flight to Arras”
  • I was less successful in my attempts to effect preventive vaccination against typhus by using the virus and in trying to produce large quantities of serum using large animals

  • And this is the ultimate lesson that our knowledge of the mode of transmission of typhus has taught us: Man carries on his skin a parasite, the louse. Civilization rids him of it. Should man regress, should he allow himself to resemble a primitive beast, the louse begins to multiply again and treats man as he deserves, as a brute beast. This conclusion would have endeared itself to the warm heart of Alfred Nobel. My contribution to it makes me feel less unworthy of the honour which you have conferred upon me in his name.

  • The only English patients I have ever known refuse tea, have been typhus cases; and the first sign of their getting better was their craving again for tea.

    Florence Nightingale (1861). “Notes on Nursing for the Labouring Classes”, p.53
  • My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today

    Animal   Monkeys   Today  
  • Are wars... anything but the means whereby a nation's problems are set, where creation is stimulated - there you have adventure. But there is no adventure in heads-or-tails, in betting that the toss will come out of life or death. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

    Peace   War   Adventure  
  • This is the worst problem with living history museums. They always leave the best parts out. Like typhus. And opium. And scarlet letters. Shunning. Witch-burning.

    Chuck Palahniuk (2011). “Choke”, p.29, Random House
  • Of all the problems which were open to me for study, typhus was the most urgent and the most unexplored. We knew nothing of the way in which contagion spread

    Way   Study   Problem  
  • When typhus or cholera breaks out, they tell us that Nobody is to blame. That terrible Nobody! How much he has to answer for. More mischief is done by Nobody than by all the world besides.

    Samuel Smiles (1875). “Thrift by Samuel Smiles”, p.337
  • It is not till it is discovered that high individual incomes will not purchase the mass of mankind immunity from cholera, typhus, and ignorance, still less secure them the positive advantages of educational opportunity and economic security, that slowly and reluctantly, amid prophecies of moral degeneration and economic disaster, society begins to make collective provision for needs which no ordinary individual, even if he works overtime all his life, can provide himself.

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