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Unlike his namesake Thomas More, the physician Dr Tom More “is a far cry from the saint, drinks too much, and watches reruns of M*A*S*H on TV.” [1] Father Smith, the priest he helps, is equally fallible in the book. Existential anxiety. Western medicine cannot cure the ills of its citizens: “The first character you encounter …
("Health Care") A disease that makes one's teeth turn into liquid and then drip down one's throat. Squid's disease SpongeBob SquarePants ("Squiditis") A disease invented by Squidward so he did not have to go to work. SpongeBob takes the fake disease literally over the course of the episode. The suds SpongeBob SquarePants ("Suds")
The book was a success and sold over 1.5 million copies. [ 5 ] Dietitian Margaret A. Ohlson negatively reviewed Eat Fat and Grow Slim , describing it as "another book on diet, based on a minimum of fact but supported by many chapters of what can only be described as propaganda based on a badly digested series of half truths and some outright ...
An eponymous disease is a disease, disorder, condition, or syndrome named after a person, usually the physician or other health care professional who first identified the disease; less commonly, a patient who had the disease; rarely, a literary character who exhibited signs of the disease or an actor or subject of an allusion, as characteristics associated with them were suggestive of symptoms ...
Diseases, both real and fictional, play a significant role in fiction, with certain diseases like Huntington's disease and tuberculosis appearing in many books and films. Pandemic plagues threatening all human life, such as The Andromeda Strain , are among the many fictional diseases described in literature and film.
Critical reception for Infected has been mixed, with Monsters and Critics praising the book's action and pacing. [4] The San Francisco Chronicle panned the book, stating that the book's intensity "might work in a series of cliff-hanging audio episodes, but as a novel to be read in a few sittings, Infected can't rise above its overheated prose and rote characterizations."
The book also includes essays about the adventures of the titular Thackery T. Lambshead, "a sort of medical Indiana Jones." [ 2 ] Appendices to the book include a history of its many editions, and biographies of the many contributing authors, named as "doctors," in which their writing career is recast as a medical career.
He wrote a book titled The Breuss Cancer Cure: Advice for the Prevention and Natural Treatment of Cancer, Leukemia and Other Seemingly Incurable Diseases; according to a 1995 English translation, Cancer Cure has been translated into seven languages and has sold more than 1 million copies.