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SIR FREDERICK TAYLOR, BT., who died on Thursday, December 2, was born in 1847, and received his medical training at Guy's Hospital. He proceeded to the degree of M.D. at London University in 1870, and was university scholar in obstetric and forensic medicine; later he represented the university on the General Medical Council. Sir Frederick was appointed consulting physician to Guy's Hospital, and remained in close touch with that institution throughout his life; he was also physician to the Seamen's Hospital, Greenwich. In 1907 he delivered the Harveian Oration. His career reached its culminating point when he was elected president of the Royal College of Physicians, and had illness not intervened he would probably have been re-elected for a second term of office. Sir Frederick was the author of numerous contributions to medical societies and journals, although he is probably best known for his “Practice of Medicine,” a standard work which has reached its eleventh edition.
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[Obituaries]. Nature 106, 477 (1920). https://doi.org/10.1038/106477b0
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/106477b0