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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

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.

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?