More from Peter Mere Latham

  1. 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…
  2. It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
  3. We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
  4. Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
  5. The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.
  6. It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.
  7. Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.
  8. It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.

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