Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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.

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

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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.