This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.
We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
Babe Paley, fully Barbara Cushing "Babe" Mortimer Paley
The common course of things is in favor of happiness. Happiness is the rule, misery the exception. Were the order reversed, our attention would be called to examples of health and competency, instead of disease and want.
Attention | Disease | Health | Order | Rule | Wisdom | Happiness |
That disease is most serious which proceeds from the head.
Novalis, pseudonym of Georg Philipp Friedrich Freiherr von Hardenberg NULL
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure, a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
William Osler, fully Sir William Osler
It is much more important to know what sort of a patient has a disease than what sort of a disease a patient has.
Norm Shealy, fully Dr. C. Norman Shealy
The greatest deficit in academic medicine is that it has generally failed to approach the problem of preventing disease or health promotion.... we are too busy taking care of people with disease to be bothered with preventing it.
Doubt is the disease of this inquisitive, restless age. It is the price we pay for our advanced intelligence and civilization - the dim night of our resplendent day. But as the most beautiful light is born of darkness, so the faith that springs from conflict is often the strongest and the best.
Age | Civilization | Darkness | Day | Disease | Doubt | Faith | Intelligence | Light | Price | Wisdom |
Greta Woodrew, Pseud. for Greta Andron Smolowe
The body is a servant of the mind. It obeys the operations of the mind. There is a mind/body connection that is powerful. As a healer, I am convinced disease and health, like circumstances, are rooted in thought. Sick thoughts express themselves through a sickly body. Thoughts of fear can kill a man. People who live in fear of disease are most likely the very people who get the disease. Conversely, if you would improve your body, guard your mind.
Body | Circumstances | Disease | Fear | Health | Kill | Man | Mind | People | Thought | Wisdom |
Man’s disease is loneliness; God’s is progress.
Disease | God | Loneliness | Man | Progress |
Mahatma Gandhi, fully Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi, aka Bapu
Fear of disease killed more men than disease itself.