Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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.

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 best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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