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Peter Mere Latham
Perfect health, like...
Perfect health, like perfect beauty, is a rare thing; and so, it seems, is perfect...
Common sense is...
Common sense is in medicine the master workman.
Source: General Remarks on the...
Remedies, indeed, are...
Remedies, indeed, are our great analysers of disease.
Source: General Remarks on...
Poisons and medicine...
Poisons and medicine are oftentimes the same substance given with different intents.
Fortunate, indeed, is...
Fortunate, indeed, is the man who takes exactly the right measure of himself and holds a just balance between what he...
There are things...
There are things which will not be defined, and Fever is one of them. Besides, when a word had passed into everyday...
It would be...
It would be a great thing to understand Pain in all its meanings.
Source: General...
How is it...
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...
Medicine is a...
Medicine is a strange mixture of speculation and action. We have to cultivate a science and to exercise an art. The...
The practice of...
The practice of physic is jostled by quacks on the one side, and by science on the other.