We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.
—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845Quotes
’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.
—Cotton Mather, 1693Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.
—Richard Krause, 1982Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989’Tis a portentous sign / When a man sweats and at the same time shivers.
—Plautus, c. 180 BCHe who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.
—Muhammad, c. 630It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.
—Adelle Davis, 1951In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.
—Jacme d’Agramont, 1348How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.
—Charles Lamb, 1833Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.
—Hans Zinsser, 1935Even diseases have lost their prestige, there aren’t so many of them left.
—Louis-Ferdinand Céline, 1960Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.
—William Shakespeare, c. 1600