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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Hygienic law, like martial law, supersedes rights in crises.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

I have learned much from disease which life could never have taught me anywhere else.

The sick man is the parasite of society.