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Sir Adolf Abrams
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British physician.
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Science Quotes by Sir Adolf Abrams (1 quote)
In my experience of anorexia nervosa it is exclusively a disease of private patients.
— Sir Adolf Abrams
Attributed. In Oxford Dictionary of Medical Quotations (2004), 1.
Quotes by others about Sir Adolf Abrams (1)
Sir Adolph Abrams, the physician, in a lecture entitled Amanuensis, described a case history as an amalgam of false memories, rumour, innuendo and downright lies, and on these we are expected to make a diagnosis.
Quoted in book review, ',Ending the Cycle of Abuse', The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry (May 1997), 42:4, 424.
In science it often happens that scientists say, 'You know that's a really good argument; my position is mistaken,' and then they would actually change their minds and you never hear that old view from them again. They really do it. It doesn't happen as often as it should, because scientists are human and change is sometimes painful. But it happens every day. I cannot recall the last time something like that happened in politics or religion.
(1987) --
Carl Sagan
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