Draper, George

George Draper, Psychoanalysis—The Inward Eye, Scribner s Magazine Dec. 1931, 667ff. Source for public opinion of 1920s psychiatry, cited by Hermes. 

Bath, to the effect that it is "more important to know what sort of patient has a disease, than to know what sort of disease a patient has." One of the most modern exponents of the same idea was George Draper, who founded the Constitutional Clinic of the College of Physicians and Surgeons, Columbia University, in 1916, and who with his collaborators published a book, Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine, in 1944.3... 

George Draper, Human Constitution in Clinical Medicine, Paul B. Hoeber, Inc., New York, N.Y., 1944. 

George E.P. Box s mthesized all these concepts in a sentence "all models are wrong, but some are useful" (Box and Draper, 1987). 

During his time in the United States, Frumkin not only gave lectures to the staff and students of the University of Wisconsin but also toured many other universities. In this way he met many important American scientists and actively discussed their work with them. For example, at the University of Chicago, he visited the Laboratory of William Draper Harkins (December 28, 1873-March 7,1951) and also met with Arthur Holly Compton (September 10, 1892-March 15, 1962). In Princeton, he discussed the polymerization of unsaturated compotmds with Hugh Stott Taylor (6 February 1890-17 April 1974) and at Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, he discussed the field of electrocapillary phenomena with Karl Ferdinand Herzfeld (February 24, 1892-June 3, 1978). In Philadelphia, he was delighted to meet George Borisovich Kistyakovsky (1900-1982), a chemist with Ukrainian-Jewish roots. 

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