War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. Votes: 6
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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 Votes: 4
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 Votes: 4
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 Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
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. Votes: 4
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. Votes: 2
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. Votes: 2
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it. Votes: 2
We must not forget that chemical warfare will sooner or later bring in its wake bacteriological warfare, pest propagation, typhus and other serious diseases. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 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. Votes: 2
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. Votes: 2