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FROM : Chief, SSD

TO : Colonel Edwards

sUJICr: ABRAMSON, Harold A.

New York State does not require a license to practice Fsychiatry. Their only rcquirement is that an individual be a physician. Subject is a physician but not known as a psychiatrist.

He has engaged in the practice of medicine since 1925. He wis educated at Colurbia University, receiving his M.D. in 1923. He is a National Research Council Fellow; studied in Germany at the Kaiscr Wilhelm Institute, physical and electrochemistry; instructor in medicine at Johns Hopkins University 1928-29; ins:ructor in biochemistry at Harvard 1929-31; Associate in Bactcriology at Cornell 1934-35; Assistant Professor of Physiolozy at Columbia University since 1935; Associate Physician and Chief of Allergy Clinic, Mt. Siani Hospital, New York City (this position indicate of his high stature in medecine at Mt. Siant known as one of the best Hospitals); member of the American College of Allergics; member of American Association for Advancement of Science; member of American Academy of Allergies and American Psychosomatic Society.

A reliable source has advised that to be an authority on allergies one would have to take courses in psychosomatic sciences but this does not make one a psychiatrist.

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Ofice AHO7GNUUI • UNIRD STATES WERNMENT

DATE: 2 Deccmber 1953