Quote #6
We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
More from Peter Mere Latham
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- Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.
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- There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.
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