Peter Mere Latham Quotes (5 Quotes)

There are things which will not be defined, and Fever is one of them. Besides, when a word had passed into everyday use, it is too late to lay a logical trap for its meaning, and think to apprehend it by a definition.

Medicine is a strange mixture of speculation and action. We have to cultivate a science and to exercise an art. The calls of science are upon our leisure and our choice the calls of practice are of daily emergence and necessity.

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

How is it that in medicine Truth is thus measured out to us in fragments, and we are never put in trust of it as a whole.

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