Funeral services were held today in the chapel of Temple Emanu-El for Dr. Bernard Sachs, world famous authority on neurology, who died yesterday at his home here, after an illness of several months. He was 86 years old.
Dr. Sachs had served as president of the Academy of Medicine, president of the first International Neurologican Congress and professor of clinical neurology at the College of Physicians and Surgeons. He was a member of the Association of American physicians, honorary member of the Royal Society of Medicine, and corresponding member of the Paris and Moscow neurological societies. Born in Baltimore, he was graduated from Harvard College in 1878 and received his medical degree from the University of Strassburg in 1892. He began his career here as neurologist at Bellevue Hospital, and had server as president of the medical board of Mount Sinai Hospital.
Dr. Sachs once expressed his convictions with a succinct remark. “Since my earliest days in the medical profession,” he said, “I have felt that I would render survive to the Jewish people if I could be as nearly like the best type of physicians of other creeds. In medicine I have never thought of myself as a Jew . I have been at all time an American physician, nothing more, nothing less.”
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