<human>:  Who said the phrase, ‘the ravages of disease’?
<bot>: That would be a quote from the novel The Scarlet Letter by Nathaniel Hawthorne. In the book, Hester Prynne, a woman who had been accused of adultery, is forced to wear a scarlet letter A on her clothing. The scarlet letter is meant to remind her of her sin and to warn others not to commit the same sin.