Men worry over the great number of diseases, while doctors worry over the scarcity of effective remedies.

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

What timid man does not avoid contact with the sick, fearing lest he contract a disease so near?

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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

Disease is not of the body but of the place.

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

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

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.