The sick man is the parasite of society.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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.