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

The best quarantine is hygiene.

Disease generally begins that equality which death completes.

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

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

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

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