Peter Lewis Allen quotes

“Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.”
-- Peter Lewis Allen

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“Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.”
-- Peter Lewis Allen

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“Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.”
-- Peter Lewis Allen

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“Shortly after Christopher Columbus and his sailors returned from their voyage to the New World, a horrifying new disease began to make its way around the Old. The "pox," as it was often called, erupted with dramatic severity.”
-- Peter Lewis Allen

Source : "The wages of sin". Book by Peter Lewis Allen, press.uchicago.edu. 2000.

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“I think America right now is looking for somebody who appeals to every faction.”

“We feel strongly that the spirit characteristic of America at its noblest, above all the pursuit of higher learning, cannot admit of any conditions as to personnel other than those designed to promote the objects for which this institution is established, and particularly with no regard whatever to accidents of race, creed, or sex.”

“There is no America without labor, and to fleece the one is to rob the other.”

“What hard evidence is there that Obama doesn't want ebola in America?”

“And, with much of Europe occupied by Nazi Germany, and Mussolini's armies in Albania, on the Greek frontier, one wasn't sure what came next. So, don't trust the telephone. Or the newspapers. Or the radio. Or tomorrow.”

Source : Alan Furst (2010). “Spies of the Balkans: A Novel”, p.4, Random House

“Med students panic their first year when they learn all the diseases. It's not until the second year that they learn the cures.”

Source : A. J. Jacobs (2012). “Drop Dead Healthy: One Man's Humble Quest for Bodily Perfection”, p.27, Simon and Schuster

“Hep is a very dangerous disease that can cause a number of permanent conditions, including death, which is extremely permanent.”

“There has to be irony, both in design and in the objects. I see around me a professional disease of taking everything too seriously. One of my secrets is to joke all the time”

“The planet's biggest problems have to do with sustainability, environmental decline, global poverty, disease, conflict and so forth. Really, they're all interconnected - it's one big problem, which is that the way we're doing things can't go on.”

Source : CNN Interview, www.cnn.com. March 11, 2008.

“For, as the substance of the brain, like that of the other solids of our body, is nearly incompressible, the quantity of blood within the head must be the same, or very nearly the same, at all times, whether in health or disease, in life or after death.”

Source : Alexander Monro (1994). “Observations on the Structure and Functions of the Nervous System”