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

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.

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

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.