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

Plagues are as certain as death and taxes.

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

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

The diseases of the present have little in common with the diseases of the past save that we die of them.

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

If they prescribe a lot of remedies for some sickness or other, it means that the sickness is incurable.

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

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.

If we wait for a pandemic to appear, it will be too late to prepare.

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.

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

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