Dr. Lawrence R. Taussig graduated from the University of California School of Medicine in 1919 and he took graduate training in dermatology and syphilology at his alma mater.  He joined the practice of Drs. Morrow and Miller, and taught at the University of California.  While memories of Dr. Howard Morrow are the most vivid in the minds of his former patients, Dr. Hiram Miller had the largest practice and patients have fondest memories of Dr. Taussig when it came to matters that required infinite patience and careful explanation.

Dr. Taussig was much beloved by his students.  He gave most of the routine lectures to the undergraduates in the third year and it was a mark of their affection that he was the only professor who was met at his car by a group of students who would assist him in carrying in his slides, projector and other paraphernalia.  He was a confirmed gadgeteer and had one of the first available grenz machines.  He also established a radon emanation plant at the University of California and was for many years the only real expert on the use of radium in skin diseases on the Pacific coast.  As a consequence of handling radium and its products, he sustained severe radiation changes of the skin of hands.  This, however, was not entirely without compensation; he was able to demonstrate hydroxide appearance of dermatophytosis in skin scales at will by taking material from his fingers. 

Dr. Taussig was an enthusiastic medical photographer and the excellent illustrations of skin diseases found in Ormsby's text, credited to Morrow, Miller, and Taussig, were taken by Taussig.  He was the first of the three to go, dying of a heart attack in 1939.