 from Harvard in 1878, Sachs travelled to Europe and studied under some of the more prominent physicians of the time, such as Adolf Kussmaul, Friedrich Daniel von Recklinghausen, Friedrich Goltz, Rudolf Virchow, Karl Friedrich Otto Westphal, Theodor Meynert, Jean-Martin Charcot, and John Hughlings Jackson.Later, in 1885, Sachs translated Meynert's classic treatise "Psychiatrie" into English.After returning to the United States, he settled into a private practice in New York, and became one of America's leading clinical neurologists.