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

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

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

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

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

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

Health can make money, but money cannot make health.

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

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

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