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

—Leslie Jamison, 2020

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

—Guy R. Williams, 1975

’Tis the destroyer, or the devil, that scatters plagues about the world.

—Cotton Mather, 1693

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

—Jewel Plummer Cobb, 1989

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

—Charles Lamb, 1833

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

—William Shakespeare, c. 1600

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

—Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, 1830

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

—Miguel de Cervantes, 1615

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

—Peter Mere Latham, c. 1845

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

—Maria Edgeworth, 1833

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

—Robert P. Hudson, 1983

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

—Samuel Hopkins Adams, 1913

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

—Helen Keller, 1936