THEODORE B. SACHS, M.D. 



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of Chicago and its citizens. I have passed through ten months of continuous 

 nightmare in trying to avert the politicalization of a great institution. But I 

 find it impossible to continue. Single-handed at present I cannot fight a big 

 political machine." 



In this connection the following copy of a letter which Dr. 

 Sachs received from his patients at the Edward Sanatorium a 

 few months before his death is significant : 



"We the undersigned patients of the Edward Sanatorium wish to take this 

 privilege of expressing our admiration for the stand you have taken in regard 

 to politics in connection with the Municipal Sanitarium of Chicago your 

 untiring and unselfish interest in humanity. None of the grossly unjust 

 criticisms of you by anyone who does not know you or your methods will have 

 the slightest influence on us who have implicit confidence in your ability as a 

 practitioner and as a man. The past records of a man who possesses your 

 international reputation cannot be easily tossed aside." 



The end came at the sanatorium of the Chicago Tuberculosis 

 Institute in the quiet little town of Naperville. There, after 

 his day's work in town, he sought rest all alone in the quiet of 

 the library. And there they found him the next morning, at 

 peace in his last sleep, which he had himself induced. 



The National Tuberculosis Association, at its meeting in May, 

 1916, at which Dr. Sachs should have presided, passed appropriate 

 resolutions which are incorporated in the minutes of the meeting 

 of 1916. (See p. 218.) 



The body of Dr. Sachs was interred on the grounds of the 

 Naperville Sanatorium, and on the memorial tablet indicating 

 the site, of which we give herewith an illustration, we read the 

 following impressive words by the great blind physician, Dr. 

 Robert H. Babcock, who had never seen Theodore B. Sachs, 

 but whose spiritual insight must have been more keen than many 

 a seeing physical eye : 



" In Memory of DR. THEODORE B. SACHS, whose life was spent in dis- 

 interested efforts to relieve the condition of the unfortunate, never indifferent 

 to the distress of others, he labored unselfishly and untiringly in their behalf, 

 and this Sanatorium in which ground he sleeps is a monument to his unusual 

 greatness of heart and singleness of purpose. He loved his neighbor as him- 

 self and was in truth a good Samaritan." 



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