Diseases are not immutable entities but dynamic social constructions that have biographies of their own.
—Robert P. Hudson, 1983Quotes
The best quarantine is hygiene.
—Richard D. Arnold, 1871Ours is an age which consciously pursues health, and yet only believes in the reality of sickness.
—Susan Sontag, 1963What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?
—Ovid, c. 10Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.
—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.
—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615Death from the bubonic plague is rated, with crucifixion, among the nastiest human experiences of all.
—Guy R. Williams, 1975I 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.
—Samuel Butler, c. 1902Health can make money, but money cannot make health.
—Maria Edgeworth, 1833If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.
—Anton Chekhov, 1904Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.
—Samuel Johnson, 1750Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.
—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913Disease makes men more physical, it leaves them nothing but body.
—Thomas Mann, 1924