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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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 sick man is the parasite of society.

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

Men take diseases, one of another. Therefore let men take heed of their company.

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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

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

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.