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.

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

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

The sick man is the parasite of society.

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

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

The beginning of health lies in knowing the disease.

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

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

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

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