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

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

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

Health care delivery is one of the tragedies still in America.

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

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.

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

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

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

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

We should always presume the disease to be curable until its own nature proves it otherwise.

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