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.

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

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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