If we remove ourselves for a moment from our time and our infatuation with mental disease, isn't there something absurd about a hero in a novel who is defeated by his infantile neurosis??

If left untreated, Chagas disease can be fatal, in most cases due to heart muscle damage.

If the treatment is successful, the new gene will make functional protein to treat a disease.

If a disease is rapidly fatal, the host may die before the microbe can get passed along to another host.

If the disease is associated with cancer, direct treatment of the cancer often relieves the symptoms of LEMS.

If microorganisms can cause disease in a host they are known as pathogens.

If a child is not screened during the routine newborn screening test ( typically performed 2-7 days after birth, using samples drawn by neonatal heel prick ), the disease may present clinically with seizures, albinism ( excessively fair hair and skin ), and a " musty odor " to the baby's sweat and urine ( due to phenylacetate, one of the ketones produced ).

:# If a general medical condition or another mental disorder is present, the fear in Criterion A ( Exposure to the social or performance situation almost invariably provokes an immediate anxiety response ) is unrelated to it, e. g., the fear is not of Stuttering, trembling in Parkinson's disease, or exhibiting abnormal eating behavior in Anorexia Nervosa or Bulimia Nervosa.

If the officer has reasonable grounds that the traveller is or might have been infected with a communicable disease or refused to provider answers, a quarantine officer ( QO ) must be called and the person is to be isolated.

If researchers were trying to initially determine the chromosomal location of a particular disease gene, they would analyze the DNA of members of a family afflicted by the disease, and look for RFLP alleles that show a similar pattern of inheritance as that of the disease ( see Genetic linkage ).

If the occlusal surfaces of the teeth or the supporting structures have been altered due to inappropriate dental treatment, periodontal disease, or trauma, the proper occlusion may need to be restored.

If one had a so called " hot " disease, like Eczema, then he would not want to eat " hot " foods such as garlic, onions, or chocolate lest the " hot " disease is worsened.

If central DI is suspected, testing of other hormones of the pituitary, as well as magnetic resonance imaging, is necessary to discover if a disease process ( such as a prolactinoma, or histiocytosis, syphilis, tuberculosis or other tumor or granuloma ) is affecting pituitary function.

If Parkinson's disease has been excluded, the differential diagnosis or list of potential causes for Parkinsonism syndrome includes:

If TSI is not elevated, then a radioactive iodine uptake should be performed ; an elevated result with a diffuse pattern is typical of Graves ' disease.

If a person drinks solutions with excessive sugar or excessive salt, these can draw water from the body into the bowel and cause osmotic diarrhea .. Osmotic diarrhea can also be the result of maldigestion ( e. g., pancreatic disease or Coeliac disease ), in which the nutrients are left in the lumen to pull in water.

If any cause had been discovered, this would eliminate Ménière's disease, as by its very definition, as an exclusively idiopathic disease -- it has no known cause.

If a safe pharmacological treatment can be developed – one that increases expression of lysosomal sialidase in neurons without other toxicity – then this new form of therapy could essentially cure the disease.

If a child inherits the gene from both parents, the child may develop Wilson's disease.

If this contains more than 1600 μg ( 25 μmol ), it is a reliable indicator of Wilson's disease.

If you were a man '' --

If she, Pamela, were being held responsible for his crimes, then hers must be the final act of expiation.

If someone were to drop a match in here, this place would go up like a haystack ''.

If the other pilots were worried, they did not show it.

If it were the enemy, tactically his position was correct.

If it were not for an old professor who made me read the classics I would have been stymied on what to do, and now I understand why they are classics ; ;

If it were not that I knew who it was I could have mistaken it for my Aunt so well did her clothes fit him.

If an automobile were approaching him, he would know what was required of him, even though he might not be able to act quickly enough.

If there were only darkness, all would be clear.

If there were only the mess, all would be clear ; ;

If these people were denied a voice ( do they have a moral right to a voice??

If we were creating a wholly new society, we could insist that our social, political, economic and philosophic institutions foster rather than hamper man ; ;

If living Jews were unavailable for study, the Bible was at hand.

If his scholarship and formal musicianship were not all they might have been, Mercer demonstrated at an early age that he was gifted with a remarkable ear for rhythm and dialect.

If she were not at home, Mama would see to it that a fresh white rose was there.

If the Stearns were not there, grace would be omitted.

If anything, the conservative Democrats were more opposed to Hearst than the Republicans.

If the hardships of the winter at Valley Forge were trying for healthy men, they were, of course, much more so for those not in good health.

If his circumspection in regard to Philip's sensibilities went so far that he even refused to grant a dispensation for the marriage of Amadee's daughter, Agnes, to the son of the dauphin of Vienne -- a truly peacemaking move according to thirteenth-century ideas, for Savoy and Dauphine were as usual fighting on opposite sides -- for fear that he might seem to be favoring the anti-French coalition, he would certainly never take the far more drastic step of ordering the return of Gascony to Edward, even though, as he admitted to the English ambassadors, he had been advised that the original cession was invalid.

If there were no West Berlin problem, imperialist quarters would have invented an excuse for stepping up the armaments race to try to solve the internal and external problems besetting the United States and its NATO partners.

If the new Soviet series has followed the general pattern of previous Russian tests, the shots were roughly half fission and half fusion, meaning a fission yield of 30 to 40 megatons thus far.

If the Hessian troops sent here willy-nilly by the Hessian Government to fight for England in the 1770's were mercenaries, what shall we call the UN troops sent to the Congo willy-nilly by their governments to fight for the United Nations??

If the UN troops are not mercenaries then the Hessians were not mercenaries either.

If he were to go with White, he would be out there two days, not just listening in the dark at some point between here and Papa-san, but moving ever deeper into enemy land -- behind Papa-san -- itself.