I reckon being ill as one of the great pleasures of life, provided one is not too ill and is not obliged to work till one is better.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

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

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

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

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

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

Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.