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NAME TAYLOR 112S TAYLOR very fair hearing. He married a woman, thirty years his junior, and by her had four sons and one daughter, Mrs. Snyder, of Burks Falls, with whom he made his home after the death of his wife, which occurred in 1888, at the age of fifty-eight. Dr. Taylor was a man of more than average height, just under six feet tall, and weighing about 150 pounds. He always ate in modera- tion and used liquor sparingly — in his latter years not at all. He was an optimist, always, when the bright side was hidden, keeping, as he said, "a stiff upper lip," until times changed. He was a member of the Methodist church for over forty years. He died, April 3, 1890. Tlie Med. Profession in Upper Can. Wm. Canniff, 1894. Portrait. Taylor, Isaac Ebenezer (1812-1889)., Isaac E. Taylor, a pioneer obstetrician and gynecologist, was one of the eight children of VVilham and Mary Taylor of Philadelphia, where he was born, April 25, 1812. Educated at Rutgers College, he afterwards took his M. D. at the University of Pennsylvania (1834). settling down to practice in New York, in 1839, with his wife, Eliza Mary, daughter of Stuart Mollau, a merchant of that city. In 1840 he visited Paris and studied under Cazeaux, and also at Dublin, and on his return to New York, had clinics at the City, Eastern, Northern and Demilt dispensaries, taking a private class of four students in "the diseases of females" at each. Thus were gynecological clinics organized. He will be remembered chiefly for his demonstration of the non-short- ening of the cervix uteri during pregnancy, (American Medical Times, June, 1862), in which he anticipated Muller, to whom credit is generally given. As a literary contributor to the Transac- tions of the New York State Medical Asso- ciation, of which he was a founder and ex- president, he did valuable work and also helped forward the cause of medicine by being the founder and lifetime president of the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Elected physician to Bellevue in 1851, he became chair- man of the medical board, ^nd in 1860 drew up the charter which was presented to the legislature, the following year, and passed. In 1839, he, with Dr. James A. Washington, in- troduced to the medical profession in the New York Dispensary, the hypodermic treat- ment by morphia. He died in New York, October 30, 1889. Among his appointments were president of New Y'ork County Medical Society ; vice- president and fellow of New York Academy of Medicine ; president obstetrical section of the Academy of Medicine ; vice-president American Gynecological Society ; physician Bellevue Hospital. His numerous articles included: "Cases of Diseases Peculiar to Females, and Nervous Diseases," 1841 ; "Rheumatism of the Uterus and Ovaries," 1845 ; "Labor with Anteversion of Uterus in that State," 1856; "Mechanism of Spontaneous Action of Uterine Inversion," 1872. A list is given in the "Transactions New York State Medical Association." 1890, vol. vii. Amer. Tour. Obstet., N. Y., 1890, vol. .xxiii. V. T. Lusk. Gaillard's Med. Jour., N. Y., 1890. vol. I. J. Shrady. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Phila., 1866, vol. xv, p. 355. Bost. Med. and Surg. Jour., 1889, vol. cxxi, p. 474. Taylor, John Winthrop (1817-1886). J. Winthrop Taylor, Surgeon-General of the United States Navy, was the son of Charles Williams Taylor, of New York, and Cornelia, daughter of Francis Bayard Winthrop. He pre- pared for college at Mr. Sears' school in Prince- ton, New Jersey, graduating from Prince- ton College. He studied medicine with Dr. Thomas Harris, of the navy, in Philadelphia, and took his medical degree from the Univer- sity of Pennsylvania in 1838. He entered the naval service as assistant-surgeon, on March 7, 1838, and was promoted to the rank of sur- geon, May 1, 1852, serving as surgeon on the Pensacola, West Gulf Blockading Squadron, from 1861-63, as fleet surgeon of the Gulf Squadron, from 1866-67, as fleet surgeon, north Pacific Squadron, 1867-69. He was appointed surgeon-general of the navy, October 21, 1878, and retired August 19, 1879, having reached the age of sixty-two years. Surgeon-General Taylor died almost instantly in Boston, Janu- ary 19, 1880. He married in 1842, but had no children. Charles A. Pfendek. Trans. Amer. Med. Assoc. 1882, vol. xxxiii. Taylor, Robert William (1842-1908). Robert William Taylor, dermatologist and urologist, was born at Coventry, England, August 11, 1842. His family came to the United States in 1850; his father who died soon after arriving in America, was an Oxford graduate and had considerable means. Dr. Taylor had good educational advantages until he was fourteen years old, then, so that he might not be a burden on his widowed mother, he left school and entered the employ of a retail druggist ; his ability was such that at the early age of twenty-one he was placed