Peter Lewis Allen Quotes

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Peter Lewis Allen Quotes #1

Was this an old disease, and, if so, which one? If it was new, what did that say about the state of medical knowledge? And in any case, how could physicians make sense of it?

Peter Lewis Allen

Tags: Knowledge , Medical , Did

Peter Lewis Allen Quotes #2

The idea of infection began to be taken far more seriously than it ever had before. Hospitals transformed themselves in response to the new plague - sometimes for the better, but often for the worse, as when, in fear, they cast their ulcerated patients out into the streets.

Peter Lewis Allen

Tags: Fear , Better, Ever

Peter Lewis Allen Quotes #3

Perhaps more than any other disease before or since, syphilis in early modern Europe provoked the kind of widespread moral panic that AIDS revived when it struck America in the 1980s.

Peter Lewis Allen

Tags: Before, America, Moral

Peter Lewis Allen Quotes #4

Often, city fathers blamed prostitutes for the disease, and some threatened to brand their cheeks with hot iron if they did not desist from their vices.

Peter Lewis Allen

Tags: Did, Often, Hot

Peter Lewis Allen Quotes #5

Medical research in the twentieth century mostly takes place in the lab; in the Renaissance, though, researchers went first and foremost to the library to see what the ancients had said.

Peter Lewis Allen

Tags: Medical , Said, Place

Peter Lewis Allen Quotes #6

Even more than this, however, the sick - like lepers - were often reviled because people believed that they had brought their torments upon themselves.

Peter Lewis Allen

Tags: Sick, Often, Themselves

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