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.

The best quarantine is hygiene.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

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.