CHAPTER XLIV 

 THEODORE B. SACHS, M.D. 



PRESIDENT OF THE NATIONAL TUBERCULOSIS ASSOCIATION FROM IQI5 TO APRIL, 



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THEODORE B. SACHS was elected president of the Na- 

 tional Tuberculosis Association at the Eleventh Annual 

 Meeting held in Seattle, Washington, in June, 1915. But 

 his tragic death on April 2, 1916 prevented his serving his full 

 term. He had already served the Association as vice-president 

 from 1913 to 1914. 



Born in Dinaberg, Russia, May 2, 1868, the son of Bernard 

 and Sophie Sachs, he was graduated from the Kherson high 

 school and later, in 1891, received his degree in law from the 

 Imperial New Russian University of Odessa. While at the 

 University, he reported for military duty and was placed on the 

 reserve list in 1887. His removal to America in 1891 was doubt- 

 less prompted by a winter's exile, imposed upon him and several 

 fellow-students because of their participation in a debate which 

 did not meet with the approval of the local authorities. 



After his arrival in this country Dr. Sachs determined to study 

 medicine, and gave up his legal career to enter the Medical De- 

 partment of the University of Illinois, from which he graduated 

 in 1895. After two years of work as an intern in the Michael 

 Reese Hospital, he entered general practice, devoting himself 

 particularly to diseases of the lungs. In 1901 Dr. Sachs was 

 appointed instructor in internal medicine at his alma mater, and 

 in 1903 he was appointed attending physician to Cook County 

 Hospital. Even in the earlier days of his medical career, as a strug- 

 gling young practitioner endeavoring to gain a foothold, he saw 

 how conditions were with reference to tuberculosis in Chicago 

 at that time, and he could not refrain from doing something to 

 help. At no little sacrifice and expense, he personally made an 



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