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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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

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

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

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

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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