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

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

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.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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