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NAME TAYLOR 1124 TAYLOR them in his practice and never wrote a pre- scription. He was a tireless worker and al- ways felt that he could have accomplished more except for his meager schooling, poor eyes, and ill health in early manhood. Writ- ing in 1887, he says, "I acknowledge that deficiency of early training left me more free from bias and less hemmed in than is often the case after special training. But it has always seemed to me that I could have man- aged the bias if I could have had the training." How completely Dr. Taylor overcame the defects in his schooling, through his own exer- tions, is evident from these recollections as well as from his other writings. His mind was fertile in original ideas and stored with in- formation, from his constant habit of inform- ing himself in regard to everything with which he came in contact. He was particularly in- terested in processes of manufacture, in ma- chinery and in people as individuals, especially those engaged in productive occupations, and those in need of help, mental, physical, moral, or material, and his interest was not theoreti- cal ; he was one of the most helpful of men. Henry Ling Taylor. Memorial by E. IT. Bradford, M. D., and autobiog. reminis.. Trans. Amer. Orthopedic Assoc, 1899. Obituary in l*ediatrics, No. 5, 1899; Year Book, N.' Y. Orthopedic Disp. and Hosp., 1899. Amer. Physical Educational Rev., 1899., vol. IV., No. 3. Taylor, George Herbert (1821-1896). George Herbert Taylor, early, earnest ex- ponent of mechano-therapy, was born in Willis- ton, Vermont, January 4, 1821, son of Brimage Taylor and Miriam Taplin. He graduated in medicine at the New York Medical College in 18.^2, then studied at Dr. Satherberg's InsliUite, at Stockholm, Sweden, during the winter of 18.S8-59. He was an enthusiastic student and practitioner of manual and me- chanical therapeutics and had a large follow- ing. His writings included: "Exposition of the Swedish Movement Cure" 408 pp. (1860) ; "Health for Women" (1880); "Massage" (1884); "Pelvic and Hernial Therapeutics" (1885) ; "Mechanical Aids in the Treatment of Chronic Forms of Disease" (1893). Charles Fayette Taylor (q. v.) was his brother. ■Dr. Taylor married Sarah E. Langworthy and had two children, a daughter and a son. Dr. William George Langworthy Taylor, emeritus professor of economics at the Uni- versity of Nebraska. Dr. Taylor died in New York, December 9, 1896. Henry Ling Taylor. Taylor, Henry (1790-1890). Henry Taylor, centenarian, Ontario country doctor, was born at Birmingham, England, January 1, 1790. His father, Samuel Taylor, M. D., had, for many years, a lucrative prac- tice at Aylesham, England, and Henry mixed medicine in his father's surgery when his height had to be extended by standing on a stool. From the age of eighteen, until he was twenty-five, he was apprenticed as a medical student, then for three years attended Guy's and St. Thomas' Hospitals, taking his degree of M. D. when he was twenty-eight years of age, having had the advantage of studying under such men as Sir Astley Cooper and .bernethy. On graduation. Dr. Taylor went into part- nership with his father at Aylesham, where he remained until June, 1839, when he emi- grated to Canada and practised for a year in Montreal. During the summer season he had a paying practice among English immi- grants, but in winter he had lillle to do and spent his summer earnings. He therefore determined to leave, and moved to Ernestown, Ontario. Here, and in the adjacent villages of Camden, Wilton and Portland, he practised for twenty-six years, si.xteen of which were spent in the latter place. Fie endured all the hardships incident to the practice of medicine in a pioneer Canadian settlement, and never refused to attend a poor patient. The poverty of his patients bore heavily on him at times, and more than once his chattels were sold for debts contracted for medical supplies. He did not take out a Canadian diploma, and was once arrested for practising without a license, but tbe validity of his English diploma was maintained, and he was acquitted. For a lime he kept three horses hard at work in making his professional calls. In earlier years he frequently travelled on foot, by the aid of a compass, between points where there was not even a foot-path. On one occasion, while waiting on a woman in confinement in a lonely house, a large pack of wolves crossed the dooryard in full cry. In 1868 Dr. Taylor moved to the township of Brook, Lanark County, where he remained a few years and then inoved to Ryerson Town- ship, Parry Sound District, to be near one of | his sons. It is astonishing the amount of I professional work, travelling, mostly on foot, I he did in Ryerson and Vicinity. At the age of ninety-three. Dr. Taylor fre- quently walked in one day, from Ryerson to j Rousseau, a distance of twenty-seven miles, and within a year of his death, he could readi ordinary print, without spectacles and had aj