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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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

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