Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

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

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

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