The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.