disease-enemies

Updated: February 28, 2026

In fact, our most universally accepted term for it, pneumonia, is merely the Greek equivalent of the first of these. It is remarkable how many of our disease-enemies appear to have a preference for the lung as a point of attack. In the language of Old Man Means in "The Hoosier Schoolmaster," the lung is "their fav'rit holt."

Woods Hutchinson - Preventable Diseases