The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.