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War is not an adventure. It is a disease. It is like typhus. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Most of the doctors in the Tunisian administration, especially those in country districts, contracted typhus and approximately one third of them died of it -- Jules Henry
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
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
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 -- Jules Henry
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 -- Jules Henry
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 -- Jules Henry
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
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. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
I finally demonstrated that typhus infection is not hereditary in the louse. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
It did not seem likely that I was destined to undertake research on typhus. -- Charles Jules Henry Nicole
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
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
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
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
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
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

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