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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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