The Taylor or tomahawk reflex hammer was devised in 1888 by John Madison Taylor (1855-1931), a pediatric neurologist in Philadelphia. Inscriptions on the handle of this hammer read "GERMANY CHROME" and "V. MUELLER U.”
Ref: J. M. Taylor, “New form of percussion hammer,” Journal of Nervous and Mental Disease 15 (1888): 253.
S. Solis-Cohen, “John Madison Taylor, An Appreciation,” Transactions of the College of Physicians of Philadelphia 54 (1932): 76-82.
D. J. Lanska and M. J. Lanska, “John Madison Taylor (1855-1931) and the first reflex hammer,” Journal of Child Neurology 5 (1990): 38-39.
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