Bernard Sachs
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Bernard Sachs, an American neurologist.
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January 2, 1858 Baltimore, Maryland |
| Died | February 8, 1944 (aged 86) New York City |
| Nationality | American |
| Fields | Neurology |
| Doctoral advisor | Friedrich Goltz |
| Spouse | Bertha Stein (w. 1940) Rosetta Kaskel |
Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 – February 8, 1944) was a Jewish-American neurologist.
After graduating with a B.A. from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the more prominent physicians of the time, such as Adolf Kussmaul (1822–1902), Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen (1833–1910), Friedrich Goltz (1834–1902), Rudolf Virchow (1821–1902), Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal (1833–1890), Theodor Meynert (1833–1892), Jean-Martin Charcot (1825–1893), and John Hughlings Jackson (1835–1911). Later, in 1885, Sachs translated Meynert's classic treatise Psychiatrie into English.
After returning to the United States, he settled into a private practice in New York, and became one of America's leading clinical neurologists. He was an instructor at New York Polyclinic Hospital, and a consultant at Mount Sinai Hospital and Manhattan State Hospital. In addition, he was publisher of the Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease (1886–1911) and president of the American Neurological Association (1894 and 1932).
The condition known as Tay–Sachs disease is named after Sachs along with English ophthalmologist Waren Tay (1843–1927). Tay first described the red spot on the retina of the eye in 1881, while Sachs provided a more comprehensive description of the disease, and in 1887 noted its higher occurrence in Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe.
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