Top 15 Peter Mere Latham Quotes

Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.

Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.

People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.

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.

It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.

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.

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!

We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.

The diagnosis of disease is often easy, often difficult, and often impossible.

Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.

Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.