Disease is not of the body but of the place.

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

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

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

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

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

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

Health in all lands is among the indispensable guarantees of human progress.

He who dies of epidemic disease is a martyr.