Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.

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

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

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

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

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.