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SACHS, Bernard (1858 – 1944)

SACHS, Bernard (1858 – 1944)

1858 – 1944

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1887

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

SACHS, Bernard (1858 – 1944)
SACHS, Bernard (1858 – 1944)

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 further papers on t…