Peter Mere Latham

The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.

— Peter Mere Latham

There is nothing so captivating as new knowledge.

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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!

— Peter Mere Latham

Common sense is in medicine the master workman.

— Peter Mere Latham

It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.

— Peter Mere Latham

Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.

— Peter Mere Latham

It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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.

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham

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

— Peter Mere Latham