Quote #14
People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.
More from Peter Mere Latham
- It is the great mystery of life itself which is at the bottom of all the mysterious language we are obliged to employ concerning it.
- Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
- It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.
- Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
- It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.
- Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
- It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
- Common sense is in medicine the master workman.