Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Quotes
The sick man is the parasite of society.
—Friedrich Nietzsche, 1889Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.
—Marianne Moore, 1935How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.
—Bian Qiao, c. 500 BCIf they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.
—Jack London, 1912Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924