He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

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.

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

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.