What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.