Peter Mere Latham Quotes
1789–1875 England
Peter Mere Latham (July 1, 1789 – July 20, 1875) was an English physician and educator.
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Also known as: Latham, Peter Mere
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Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.
Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.
It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.
People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
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.
A small overweight of knowledge is often a sore impediment to the movements of common sense.
without citation in Aphorisms from Latham (1962)
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.
It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.
Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
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 he can use, be it great or be it small!