Quotes About Typhus

#1. I do so love how all magic comes with its share of dire warnings and unclear requirements," sighed Tybalt. "It's like being on the stage, only there's no director, and the understudies have all died of typhus.

Seanan McGuire

#2. 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.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#3. 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.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#4. It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#5. We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases.

Ferdinand Buisson

#6. 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

#7. 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

#8. I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#9. Our world was like that, full of words that killed: croup, tetanus, typhus, gas, war, lathe, rubble, work, bombardment, bomb, tuberculosis, infection. With these words and those years I bring back the many fears that accompanied me all my life.

Elena Ferrante

#10. The malnourished Irish were very vulnerable to diseases. In fact, more people died from illness than from actual starvation. Typhus

Ryan Hackney

#11. Shells, gas clouds, and flotillas of tanks - shattering, corroding, death. Dysentery, influenza, typhus - scalding, choking, death. Trenches, hospitals, the common grave - there are no other possibilities.

Erich Maria Remarque

#12. Just as the only reservoir for the typhus virus in nature is provided by man, so the only vector of infection is the louse. The bite of the louse is not virulent immediately after the infecting meal. It becomes so only towards the 7th day following infection.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#13. War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus.

Antoine De Saint-Exupery

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

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#15. 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.

Charles Jules Henry Nicole

#16. Unfortunately, in 1861, when he was forty, Buckle caught typhus while traveling in Damascus. Offered the services of a local physician, he refused because the man was French, and so he died.

Leonard Mlodinow

#17. 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

#18. The more we practice mindfulness, the more alert we become to the cost of keeping secrets.

Sharon Salzberg

#19. Confession of sin shows us more clearly our need of mercy-and endears God's mercy more to us

Joseph Caryl

#20. Blessed is the season which engages the whole world in a conspiracy of love. - Hamilton Wright Mabie (1846 - 1916), American essayist

Susan Wiggs

#21. To one's own fault, twas life's giving.
To one's understanding, twas his choosing.

Isabel Aanya Leigh

#22. To feel that one has a place in life solves half the problem of contentment.

George Edward Woodberry

#23. Well, why not? Why not go out? It was a sure way to be free of them.

Richard Matheson