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Richard Alan John Asher, FRCP (3 April 1912 – 25 April 1969) was an eminent British endocrinologist and haematologist. As the senior physician responsible for the mental observation ward at the Central Middlesex Hospital he described and named Munchausen syndrome in a 1951 article in The Lancet.

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The modern haematologist, instead of describing in English what he can see, prefers to describe in Greek what he can’t.

Describe, Describing, Greek, Modern, See

Too often a sister puts all her patients back to bed as a housewife puts all her plates back in the plate-rack-to make a generally tidy appearance.

Appearance, Bed, Generally, Nurse, Science, Tidy

For many doctors the achievement of a published article is a tedious duty to be surmounted as a necessary hurdle in a medical career.

Careers, Doctors, Duty, Medical, Published, Science

It is not always worth the discomforts of major surgery to get minor recovery.

Discomfort, Minor, Recovery, Surgery

Gynaecologists are very smooth indeed. Because they have to listen to woeful and sordid symptoms they develop an expression of refinement and sympathy.

Develop, Expression, Listen, Smooth, Sympathy, Symptoms

The only similarity between the car and the human body is that if something is seriously wrong with the design of the former you can send it back to its maker.

Body, Car, Design, Former, Human, Send

Despair is better treated with hope, not dope.

Despair, Dope, Hope, Science, Treated

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