Truth in all its kinds is most difficult to win; and truth in medicine is the most difficult of all.
Peter Mere Latham
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents
medicine
People in general have no notion of the sort and amount of evidence often needed to prove the simplest matter of fact.
people
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.
mystery life language
truth
It takes as much time and trouble to pull down a falsehood as to build up a truth.
trouble buildup truth thetimes time
It is no easy task to pick one's way from truth to truth through besetting errors.
We should always presume the disease to be curable, until its own nature prove it otherwise.
nature
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.
rights man
The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.
science
Faith and knowledge lean largely upon each other in the practice of medicine.
faith
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect disease.
health beauty
Beware of language, for it is often a great cheat.
language
It would be a great thing to understand pain in all its meanings.
pain
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