More from Peter Mere Latham

  1. The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
  2. Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.
  3. Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.
  4. The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.
  5. We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
  6. Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself, and holds a just balance between what he can acquire and what…
  7. Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
  8. It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

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