disease.

Much confusion of ideas exists upon this subject, largely due to a loose application of the term disease.

Scientific American, Volume XLIII., No. 25, December 18, 1880 A Weekly Journal of Practical Information, Art, Science, Mechanics, Chemistry, and Manufactures. Various

Deranged or suppressed action characterizes, and, indeed, constitutes all departures from health which we call disease.

The People's Common Sense Medical Adviser in Plain English or, Medicine Simplified, 54th ed., One Million, Six Hundred and Fifty Thousand Ray Vaughn Pierce 1877

Your duty as a master mechanic is to know that the engine kept is in so perfect a condition that there will be no functional disturbance to any nerve, vein, or artery that supplies and governs the skin, the fascia, the muscle, the blood or any fluid that should freely circulate to sustain life and renovate the system from deposits that would cause what we call disease.

Philosophy of Osteopathy 1872

Part 2 deals with the ways in which development can be altered to produce abnormal phenotypes, including what we call disease.

American Scientist Online 2009

If it be true that the animal organism is intended by nature to pass through a cycle, and that natural death is not a disease, but a completion of the process of life, it follows that the organism, with exceptions, as to any particular class of people born in health, is constructed to pass through this cycle and is not of itself, -- that is to say, by its own organism, -- capable of giving origin to any of the phenomena to which we apply the term disease.

Twentieth Century Negro Literature Or, A Cyclopedia of Thought on the Vital Topics Relating to the American Negro Daniel Wallace [Editor] Culp

These are two commonly agreed-upon problems that need to be rectified for any person with a chronic illness, including diabetics, people with MS, or any other long-term disease.

Kate Kelly: Yes, You Can Make a Difference 2009

This idealistic thinking is mitigated by, for instance, the fact that lots of young ghetto dwellers have no control over the heavily polluted air in their neighborhoods which lead to explosive rates of chronic asthma, or that tens of thousands of farm and other workers exist in toxic environments which contribute to short - and long-term disease.

Karen Kisslinger: When Pundits Start to Talk about Health Care Policy and Reform, Talk Back About "Healthy Care" 2008

Sometimes, the thyroid problems disappear within a year of giving birth, but other women go on to have long-term disease.

The Body's Traffic Cop 2008

We need to start make these decisions because a 3 or 4 - year-old doesn't understand the consequences of a long-term disease.

CNN Transcript Aug 18, 2004 2004

It is ignorance, in most cases, rather than unwillingness that brings upon the race the punishment we call disease.

Valere Aude Dare to Be Healthy, Or, The Light of Physical Regeneration Louis Dechmann