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

Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.

Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.