He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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.

The passion for setting people right is in itself an afflictive disease.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

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

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

All the world is topsy-turvy, and it has been topsy-turvy ever since the plague.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.