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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

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

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