He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

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