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NAME EATON 351 EBERLE His medical education was supplemented by attendance at the Bellevue Hospital Medical College. He was for eight years assistant to Prof. Theophilus Parvin, the distinguished ob- stetrician and gynecologist, after which he spent some time abroad. Being the first to appreciate and teach the value of surgical cleanliness in his community, he quickly came into a great surgical practice which he gradu- ally limited to surgery of the abdomen. He was the only American surgeon who had operated for extrauterine pregnancy by dissect- ing out the sac containing the child, saving the life of both baby and mother (Hirst's "System of Obstetrics," vol. ii, pp. 269 and 270). He originated and perfected many instruments and surgical procedures, which in their day were much used and had a large and honorable part in laying the foundation of modern abdominal surgery. His original work and his operating-room attracted many of the earnest surgeons of the country. These were impressed by his origi- nality, machine-like precision and the clarity of his surgical judgment. He was surgeon to the Indianapolis Hos- pital and founder of the College of Phy- sicians and Surgeons of Indianapolis, a com- ponent school of the Indiana University, de- partment of medicine. He taught anatomy in this institution seven years, after which a special chair was created for him in diseases of women and abdominal surgery. He was president of the Western Surgical Association, chairman of the section of dis- eases of women of the American Medical Association, and an honorary member of the medical societies of the states of New York and Michigan. In 1901 Wabash College conferred upon Dr. Eastman her LL. D. His death occurred in Indianapolis, June 7, 1902, caused by carcinoma of the liver. His wife, a daughter and two sons, Drs. Thomas B. and Joseph Rilus Eastman, survived him, A tolerably full list of his pamphlets, chiefly obstetrical, can be seen in the Catalogue of the Surgeon-general, Washington, D. C. Joseph R. Eastman. Eaton, Horace (1804-1855). The son of Dr. Eliphaz and Polly Barnes Eaton, Horace was born in Barnard, Vermont, Jitne 24, 1804, and fitted for college at St. Al- bans Academy, graduating at Middlebury Col- lege in 1825. He studied medicine with his father in Enosburg and attended lectures at Castleton, where he recived his diploma, after- wards practising with his father at Enosburg and then with his brother, Dr. Rollin Eaton, in the same place. He was a skilful practitioner and was held in high esteem by the profession generally. He was a member of the Vermont State Medi- cal Society and its president in 1845. He held nearly all the offices — town, county and state — to which it was possible for his friends to elect him, being State Senator four times, lieutenant Governor three times, and in 1846 elected Gov- ernor, holding the office for two years. After his retirement he was elected professor of natural history and chemistry at Middlebury College, a chair he filled for six years, until his death in 1855. It is recorded of him that he was the victim of a wasting and dis- astrous disease, contracted in the care of a professional brother in a neighboring town. Dr. Eaton was a voluminous writer and deliv- ered addresses and lectures on a variety of subjects. Gov. Eaton was twice married ; in 1821 to Cordelia L. Fuller, and in 1841 to Edna Pal- mer. They had two children. Charles S. Caverly. Eberle, John (1787-1838). John Eberle was born in the county of Lan- caster, Pennsylvania, December 10, 1787. Of his parentage little is known except that both father and mother were of sturdy Ger- man extraction, tilling the soil and no doubt requiring the same of their children as soon as they were old enough. Although naturally endowed with a vigorous intellect he had no early educational advan- tages. It is not certainly known who was his preceptor, probably the good family physician ; later he matriculated at the University of Pennsylvania, where his name appears in the list of graduates in the year 1809 — the year he attained his majority, and his graduation thesis was devoted to an investigation of animal life. He at first settled in his native place, but as "a prophet is not without honor save in his own country," he selected Philadelphia as his future field of medical labpr. Young, energetic and ambitious, with no ac- quaintances or friends to render him financial assistance, he soon realized that he must put forth every effort. A previous taste of news- paper work and, perhaps the lack of full em- ployment for his time at first, led to the estab- lishment of the American Medical Recorder as a quarterly, with John Eberle as its editor. The first number appeared in 1818. It was ably sustained, and the popularity of the journal constantly increased because of the valuable