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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

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

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