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

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

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

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

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

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

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

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