Rare Diseases

Famous quotes containing the words rare and/or diseases:

“It is a rare life that remains well-ordered even in private.”
—Michel de Montaigne (1533–1592)

“The fantasies inspired by TB in the last century, by cancer now, are responses to a disease thought to be intractable and capricious—that is, a disease not understood—in an era in which medicine’s central premise is that all diseases can be cured.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)