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SACHS, Bernard (1858 – 1944)

SACHS, Bernard (1858 – 1944)

1858 – 1944

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

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1887 CE

#4705

On arrested cerebral development, with special reference to its cortical pathology.

Sachs described the cerebral changes in amaurotic familial idiocy. Earlier, Tay (No. 5918) had recorded the ocular manifestations of this condition, which became known as “Tay-Sachs’s disease”. Two f…