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.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

It is strange indeed that the more we learn about how to build health, the less healthy Americans become.

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

How sickness enlarges the dimension of a man’s self to himself! He is his own exclusive object.

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

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

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

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