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

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

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.