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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

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

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

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