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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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.

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

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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.