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Nationality
  
American

Education
  
Harvard University

Doctoral advisor
  
Name
  
Bernard Sachs

Fields
  
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Born
  
January 2, 1858Baltimore, Maryland (
1858-01-02
)

Spouse
  
Bertha Stein (w. 1940)Rosetta Kaskel

Died
  
February 8, 1944, New York City, New York, United States

Books
  
The Normal Child and how to Keep it Normal in Mind & Morals: Suggestions for Parents, Teachers and Physicians; with a Consideration of the Influence of Psychoanalysis

Bernard Sachs (January 2, 1858 – February 8, 1944) was a Jewish-American neurologist.

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Early life and education

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.

Career

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 Warren 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.

Sachs published several books, including Nervous and Mental Disorders from Birth through Adolescence, a reference work intended for professionals. In 1926 he published The Normal Child, a popular manual on child rearing intended for the general public. In the latter book he advocated a common-sense approach to parenting and the rejection of psychological theories, especially Freudian psychology.

Personal life

His portrait was painted in the winter of 1914–15 by the Swiss-born American artist Adolfo Muller-Ury (1862–1947), but is presently unlocated.

Sachs, of the notable Goldman–Sachs family, is the son of Joseph Sachs and Sophia Baer. His older brother Samuel Sachs was a co-founder of Goldman Sachs. His eldest brother Julius Sachs was a notable educator at Columbia University and founded Sachs Collegiate Institute. His nephew, Ernest Sachs (1879–1958), also became a notable physician.

Publications by Sachs concerning Tay-Sachs disease

  • "On arrested cerebral development, with special reference to its cortical pathology", in:
  • Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease, Chicago, 1887; 14: 541-553.
  • Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Chicago, 1892, 17: 603-607.
  • Journal of Nervous and Mental Diseases, Chicago, 1896, 21: 475-479.
  • "Amaurotic Family Idiocy (Tay-Sachs disease)". in: Modern medicine: its theory and practice, in original contributions by American and foreign authors", edited by William Osler, assisted by Thomas McCrae. Philadelphia and New York: Lea & Febiger, 7 volumes, 1907-1910. Volume 7, chapter XXI, pp. 868–874.
  • References

    Bernard Sachs Wikipedia


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