All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Quotes
Disease is not of the body but of the place.
—Latin proverbThe best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Everyone who is sick is someone else’s patient zero.
—Leslie Jamison, 2020The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.
—Agnes Repplier, 1929