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every reform for higher medical educa- tion and was one of the committee ap- pointed by the faculty of the Med- ical College of Georgia in 1848 to call a convention of the medical colleges of the country to raise the standard of requirement. This was the first move- ment toward advanced medical educa- tion ever inaugurated in the United States and was not received with favor. At the first meeting of the American Gynecological Society Dr. Eve was highly honored. He was invited to a seat on the right of the president and presented to the society as the oldest active teacher of obstetrics in the world and at this meeting he was made one of the first honorary fellows.

Dr. Eve was never a voluminous con- tributor to medical literature; but the few papers on scientific subjects which he published are characterized by deep study and research and are to be found in the "Transactions of the American Gynecological Society," the "American Journal of Obstetrics," the "Transac- tions of the Medical Association of Geor- gia," and the "Southern Medical and Surgical Journal" of which publication he was the editor for a number of years. Dr. Eve was one of the founders of the Georgia Medical Association and its president in 1S79. In 1S82 Emory College of Georgia conferred on him the degree LL. D. in recognition of his distinguished services to science and humanity. J. E. A.

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Eve, Paul Fitzsimmons (1S0G-1877).

Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, surgeon in Ten- nessee, son of Capt. Oswell and Aphra Ann (Pritchard) Eve, was born near Au- gusta, Georgia on June 27, 1806. First taking his A. B. from Franklin College, Athens, Georgia, he studied medicine under Charles D. Meigs then took his M. D. from the University of Pennsylvania in 1828. A year of practice taught him his needs and to supply them he worked hard during 1831 in the clinics of the most famous European surgeons.

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1831 was a time of political upheaval, and when the Russian advance was made on Poland he helped as army sur- geon in Warsaw and received the gold- en cross of honor. In November he returned to America and in 1832 be- came professor of surgery in the Med- ical College of Georgia and in 1850 suc- ceeded Gross in the same post in the Uni- versity of Louisville, but resigned on the death of his wife, Sarah Louisa, daughter of Gen. Twiggs. He was afterwards successively professor of sur- gery in the University of Nashville; the same in Missouri Medical College in 1S68, yet had to resign as the climate did not suit him, and returning to Nash- ville accepted the chair of operative and clinical surgery and finally that of surgery and diseases of the genito-urinary organs.

During his well-filled forty-five years of surgery he became a skilled lithoto- mist, and Meigs gives him the credit of being the first American to exsect the uterus in situ He did also some fine op- erations in trephining and tracheotomy the details of which can be seen in his largest work, "Remarkable Cases in Surgery," (1857). There was an article, too, on "One Hundred Cases in Lithot- omy" ("Transactions American Medical Association," 1870) and "A Report on Hip-joint Operations performed by Con- federate Surgeons" was contributed to "The Medical History of the War." He also edited the "Southern Medical and Surgical Journal" and was assistant editor of the " Nashville Medical and Surgical Journal." He had plenty of experience as an army surgeon, serving in the Mex- ican War, and in 1859, being in Europe, was present at the battles of Magenta and Solferino, contributing his notes to the " Nashville Medical and Surgical Journal." When the Civil War broke out he was well to the fore and became surgeon-general of Tennessee, and on the fall of Nashville was surgeon to the Gate City Hospital, Atlanta.

lie married again, twenty years after the death of his first wife, Sarah Ann,