Rare Diseases

Famous quotes containing the words rare and/or diseases:

“And so with that most rare conception, nothing.
What is it, after all, but something missed?”
—Richard Wilbur (b. 1921)

“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)