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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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