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

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

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

In times of pestilence, gaiety and joyousness are most profitable.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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

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

Infectious disease is one of the few genuine adventures left in the world.

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

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

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

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.