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==Biography== Albert Abrams was born in [[San Francisco]] on December 8, 1863, to Marcus Abrams and Rachel Leavey,<ref>{{cite web|url=https://doi.org/10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200003 |title=Abrams, Albert |last=Young |first=James Harvey |website=American National Biography |year=2000 |publisher=Oxford University Press |doi=10.1093/anb/9780198606697.article.1200003 |access-date=August 22, 2022}}</ref> although other dates have also been reported.<ref>[http://jama.jamanetwork.com/article.aspx?articleid=229592 JAMA. 1922;78(14):107β73]. {{doi|10.1001/jama.1922.02640670058034}}</ref> On October 8, 1878, he inscribed at [[Cooper Medical College|Medical College of the Pacific]], worked as an assistant of Prof. Douglass and Prof. Hirschfelder, and got a medical degree on October 30, 1881. Then he went to [[Heidelberg]], Germany, and graduated there in November 1882<ref>{{cite web| url = http://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Albert_Abrams_Curiculum_Vitae,_written_by_himself_in_Heidelberg.jpg| title = Curriculum Vitae, hand-written by Albert Abrams, Heidelberg, 1881| date = 12 August 2013}}</ref> before undertaking further studies in London, Berlin, Vienna, and Paris. According to Wilson,<ref>[http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/html/chap26/chap26-sect6.html Wilson, Stanford University School of Medicine and the Predecessor Schools: An Historical Perspective] {{webarchive|url=https://web.archive.org/web/20131110051905/http://elane.stanford.edu/wilson/html/chap26/chap26-sect6.html |date=2013-11-10 }}</ref> Abrams was awarded an M.D. by the Cooper College in 1883.<ref name=JMAW>{{Cite web |title=Dr. Albert Abrams: Controversial Doctor of San Francisco β JMAW β Jewish Museum of the American West |url=https://www.jmaw.org/abrams-jewish-san-francisco/ |access-date=2024-02-07 |website=www.jmaw.org}}</ref> He served on the teaching staff of the College for a total of fourteen years: five years (1885β1889) as Demonstrator of Pathology; four years (1890β1893) as Adjunct to the Chair of Clinical Medicine and Demonstrator of Pathology; and five years (1894β1898) as Professor of Pathology. He was described by one Jewish newspaper as βour talented young professor.β<ref name=JMAW/> He was elected vice-president of the California State Medical Society in 1889 and was made president of the San Francisco Medico-Chirurgical Society in 1893. In the beginning of the 1900s he had become a respected expert in neurology. From 1904 he was president of the Emanuel Polyclinic in San Francisco.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://openlibrary.org/works/OL5537721W/Report_on_radionics-science_of_the_future.| title = Russell, Edward, Report on Radionics, (London: Neville Spearman), p. 17}}</ref> Abrams published numerous books from 1891 to 1923.<ref>{{cite web| url = https://openlibrary.org/authors/OL2390254A/Albert_Abrams?sort=old#editions.| title = Albert Abrams, List of published books on openlibrary.org}}</ref> He died January 13, 1924, from a [[broncho-pneumonia]] in San Francisco.
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