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Fuller Albright
(12 Jan 1900 - 8 Dec 1969)
American physician and endocrinologist who was recognised by Harvard University as a 'brilliant investigator in the complex field of nutrition and metabolism.' His research provided a clear physiologic understanding of various disorders, including Albright's syndrome (1928), still known by his name.
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Science Quotes by Fuller Albright (5)
(1) I have told you more than I know about osteoporosis. (2) What I have told you is subject to change without notice. (3) I hope I raised more questions than I have given answers. (4) In any case, as usual, a lot more work is necessary.
Conclusion of one of his papers.
Conclusion of one of his papers.
— Fuller Albright
In Barry G. Firkin, Judith A. Whitworth, Dictionary of Medical Eponyms (1996), 5.
See also: | Publication (34)
An intelligent patient, private or otherwise, to whom you have taken the trouble to explain the nature of the investigation, makes the best laboratory animal.
— Fuller Albright
'Some of the 'Do's' and 'Do-Nots' in Clinical Investigation,' Journal of Clinical Investigation (1944), 23, 921-26.
See also: | Research (140)
Any theory is better than no theory.
— Fuller Albright
In Barry G. Firkin, Judith A. Whitworth, Dictionary of Medical Eponyms (1996), 5.
See also: | Theory (95)
As with eggs, there is no such thing as a poor doctor, doctors are either good or bad.
— Fuller Albright
In Russell L. Cecil and Robert F. Leob, 'Diseases of the Ductless Glands,' Textbook of Medicine (9th ed.), Introduction.
See also: | Physician (109)
For the past 10 years I have had the interesting experience of observing the development of Parkinson's syndrome on myself. As a matter of fact, this condition does not come under my special medical interests or I would have had it solved long ago. … The condition has its compensations: one is not yanked from interesting work to go to the jungles of Burma ... one avoids all kinds of deadly committee meetings, etc.
— Fuller Albright
Article for his 25th anniversary class report. In Barry G. Firkin, Judith A. Whitworth, Dictionary of Medical Eponyms (1996), 5.
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