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

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

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

Diseases, at least many of them, are like human beings. They are born, they flourish, and they die.

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

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

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