Dr. Peter Mere Latham

From Collected Works Dr. P. M. Latham: Lectures subjects connected clinical medicine.

Surely there is an evil in using language more precise than our knowledge. If this were the place, it would be easy to show that medicine has partaken especially of it. Its language has almost always outrun its knowledge. And the evil has been nothing less than this: our language, by ever persuading us that we are wiser than we are, has wedded up to many a capital error.”