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Tay-Sachs' disease

  • autosomal recessive disorders
  • commoner amongst Ashkenazi Jew
  • hexosaminidase deficiency
  • infantile neurodegenerative disorder
  • cherry red spot in the macula
Tay, Warren (1843 - 1927) Sachs, Bernard (1858 - 1944)

 
Curriculum Vitae (Tay, Warren)

Nationality:

English doctor


Undergraduate:

Medical study in London Hospital
Qualified 1866
Postgraduate:
Surgeon, Royal London Ophthalmic Hospital, Moorfields
Dermatologist, Blackfriars Hospital for Skin Disease
Paediatrician, Queen's Hospital for Children, Hackney Road
FRCS 1869
Retired and lived in Croydon


Publication

Tay W (1881) Symmetrical changes in the region of the yellow spot in each eye of an infant. Trans Ophthalmol Soc UK 1:55
Curriculum Vitae (Sachs, Bernard)

Nationality:

American neurologist
Born in Blatimore of German descent
Undergraduate:
Psychology in Harvard University
Medicine in Strasbourg, qualified in 1881


Post-graduate:

Junior doctor to Charcot in Salpetriere, Paris
Neurologist, Polyclinic, Mont Sinai, Montefiori
Neurologist, Bellevue Hospitals
Publication:
Sachs B (1887) On arrested cerebral development, with special reference to its cortical pathology. J Nerv Ment Disc 14:541
 
 
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