The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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