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NAME TAYLOR 1123 TAYLOR sliip of all. His record in obstetrics is somewhat unique in that he attended more confinements than any practitioner in Cin- cinnati. He originated a special method of restoring an inverted uterus to its orignal position (known as Tate's method) and cured the longest standing case of inverted uterus on record. Tate introduced the following resolution in the Cincinnati Academy of Medicine, which passed it, and then he went to Columbus and presented it before the state legislature and secured its adoption. "All money received from the sale of tickets to medical students witnessing operations and attending lectures m the amphitheater of the Cincinnati Hospital, shall go to the establishment and maintenance of a medical library and museum." In this way. Dr. Tate became the founder of the Cincinnati Hospital Library. He married Margaret Kincaid Chenoweth in 1853 and had nine children. Two, Magnus and Ralph, selected medicine as a profession. John Humphreys Tate died of cerebral hem- orrhage when seventy-six years old, on Feb- ruary 7, 1892, at Cincinnati, Ohio. A. G. Drury. Daniel Drake and His Followers. O Tuettner 1909. Portrait. Taylor, Charles Fayette (1827-1899). Charles Fayette Taylor, orthopedic surgeon, and inventor, was born and brought up on a farm in Williston, Vermont, April 25, 1827, being the date of his birth. His grandfather, John Taylor of Williston, was a great-grand- son of the Reverend Edward Taylor ( 1642- 1727) of Westfield, Massachusetts, who came to this country from England, in 1669. After taking his M. D. at the University of Vermont in 1856, he went to London and studied therapeutic exercises under M. Roth, a pupil of Ling. On returning, he settled in New York City and introduced the so-called "Swedish movements" into this country. His book on the "Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure" (Lindsay and Blakiston) was published in 1861. His experience with therapeutic exercises soon directed his atten- tion to the neglected state of sufferers from chronic joint and spinal troubles and other deformities, and he studied with enthusiasm the problem of improving tlieir treatment, be- ing a pioneer in the application of the local rest and protection by proper splinting, and in " the abundant use of fresh air. To these ends he devised a series of corrective and pro- tective appliances, many of which are still standard. In this work he made use of every- thing which seemed of service, adding what- ever of value his own original mind could suggest, regardless of tradition. He also devised a system of exercising machines for the weak and paralytic, many of which were worked by power, like the Zan- der apparatus. He proved his mastery in three fields, therapeutic exercises, mechanical orthopedics, and a common sense psycho- therapy, somewhat on the lines later practised by Dubois of Bern, that enabled him to effect many striking cures in bedridden neurasthen- ics and others. In 1866 Dr. Taylor called the attenion of Howard Potter, Theodore Roosevelt, James Brown, John L. Aspinwall, and others, to the need of a place where crippled and deformed poor might receive treatment. Becoming in- terested, these friends, with Dr. Taylor, found- ed the New York Orthopedic Dispensary and Hospital, which Dr. Taylor served for eight years as surgeon-in-chief. Dr. Taylor's originality, thoroughness, self reliance and enthusiastic devotion to the wel- fare of his patients, won the confidence of the profession and gave him a reinarkably successful practice, until his health began to fail in 1882. After extensive travels in foreign countries, he settled in Southern California, where he died, January 25, 1899. He had married Mary Salina Skinner of Williston, on March 7, 1854, who with four children sur- vived him. He was honored with medals or diplomas at Paris in 1867, at Vienna in 1873, and at Phila- delphia in 1876. He was made corresponding member of the Imperial Medical Society of Vienna on Billroth's nomination, and charter member of the American Orthopedic Associa- tion ; a fellow of the New York Academy of Medicine; a member of the New York County Medical Society; a fellow of the American Geographical Society, and of the New York Academy of Sciences. His published work includes between forty and fifty titles, mostly on orthopedic subjects. Those On the "Mechanical Treatment of An- gular Curvature or Pott's Disease of the Spine" (1863), and its German translation (1873); "Spinal Irritation or the Causes of Backache among American Women" (1864); "Infantile Paralysis" (1867) ; on the "Mechani- cal Treatment of Disease of the Hip-joint" (1873), and its German translation in the same year; and "Emotional Prodigality" (Dental Cosmos, July, 1879) are still classic. His largest work was on "The Theory and Practice of the Movement Cure," 1861. Though not opposed to the use of drugs when definitely indicated, he found no use for