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He was born in Brooklyn, N. Y. , the younger of two children of Mary L. (Cuno) Taussig and Joseph S. Taussig, a banker who had emigrated from Prague, Bohemia. His brother, Albert Ernest, born in St. Louis, Mo. , also became a physician. When Frederick was still an infant the family returned to St. Louis.
Taussig attended Smith Academy there, followed his brother to Harvard, where he received the A. B. degree in 1893, and then entered the Washington University Medical School in St. Louis, from which he graduated in 1898. After a two-year internship at the St. Louis City Hospital for Women, where he also served as assistant superintendent, Taussig went to Europe for further gynecologic training in Berlin and Vienna.
He established a private practice upon his return to St. Louis in 1902 and joined the medical faculty of his alma mater; in 1911 he achieved the rank of professor of clinical obstetrics and gynecology, a post he held for the rest of his life. He also served on the staffs of several St. Louis hospitals.
Taussig early became interested in the problem of abortion in both its medical and social aspects and in 1910 published a pioneering monograph, The Prevention and Treatment of Abortion. State laws at the time recognized few reasons for therapeutic abortion, but Taussig's clinical experience convinced him that it was a vital factor in preventive medicine and maternal health. In 1930 he visited the Soviet Union and studied existing procedures in hospitals in Moscow and Kiev.
In his exhaustive treatise, Abortion, Spontaneous and Induced: Medical and Social Aspects (1936), he cited statistics of fifteen states showing that 25 percent of the puerperal deaths resulted from abortion, predominantly induced, under improper auspices. Listing many medical reasons for interruption of pregnancy, Taussig added social and eugenic ones as well, including rape. "As physicians, " he pleaded, "we are justified and obligated in trying to persuade our fellow-citizens to consider this problem from the broader aspects of preventive medicine, and ask them to take such steps, legal and otherwise, as will make it possible for the conscientious physician to do an abortion under such circumstances to preserve the health of the mother and the integrity and well being of the family". Taussig also suggested, as the most important measure for the control of abortion, the widespread establishment of clinics for the dissemination of contraceptive materials among the poor.
Taussig's second major interest was the prevention and proper treatment of cancer of the vulva. In journal articles, chapters in surgical textbooks, and his monograph Diseases of the Vulva (1923), he stressed his belief that untreated leucoplakia of the vulva inevitably leads to cancer, a view that has been sharply modified by later students of the subject. Because of the poor results with radiotherapy in the treatment of vulvar cancer, he became a staunch advocate of surgical excision.
He died of pneumonia at the age of seventy while on vacation at Bar Harbor, Maine. His ashes were buried in Bellefontaine Cemetery, St. Louis.
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He had no formal religious affiliation.
Taussig served as president of the American Gynecological Society (1936 - 37), vice-chairman of the American Medical Association's Section on Obstetrics and Diseases of Women (1910 - 11) and its renamed Section on Obstetrics, Gynecology, and Abdominal Surgery (1923 - 24), and chairman of the Missouri State Cancer Commission. He was a director of the American Society for the Control of Cancer (1938). Taussig was also a member of the Ethical Society of St. Louis.
On May 4, 1907, Taussig married Florence Gottschalk. They had two children, Mary Bolland and Frederick.
