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NAME EVE 372 EVE ferred to, and held for fifty-three years, that of obstetrics and diseases of women and chil- dren. As a teacher he was clear, exact, and emi- nently practical ; his lectures were always care- fully prepared and first written out, and he was ever untiring in the interest of his students. Throughout his long and useful career as a teacher he boldly and persistently advocated adoption of every reform for higher medical education, and was one of the committee, appointed by the faculty of the Medical Col- lege of Georgia, in 1848, to call a convention of the medical colleges of the country to raise the standard of requirements. This was the first movement toward advanced medical edu- cation 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 contributor to medical literature ; but the few papers on scientific subjects which he published are char- acterized by deep study and research, and are to be found in the "Transactions of the Ameri- can Gynecological Society," the American Jour- nal of Obstetrics, the "Transactions of the Medical Association of Georgia," 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 1882 Emory College of Georgia conferred on him the de- gree of LL. D. in recognition of his distin- guished services to science and humanity. Joseph Evk Allen. Atlanta Med. and Surg. Jour., 1^85-6, vol. xxvi. Eve, Paul Fitzsimmoiu (1806-1877). Paul Fitzsimmons Eve, Tennessee surgeon, son of Captain Oswell and Aphra Ann Pritch- ard Eve, was born on the Savannah River, near Augusta, Georgia, June 27, 1806. First taking his A. B. from Franklin College, Athens, Georgia, he studied medicine under Charles D. Meigs (q. v.) ; 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 sur- geons. The year 1831 was a time of political tur- moil and excitement in Europe, and when the Russian advance was made on Poland he helped as army surgeon in Warsaw and re- ceived the golden cross of honor. In Novem- ber he returned to America, and in 1832 be- came professor of surgery in the Medical College of Georgia. He married Sarah Louisa Twiggs, granddaughter of General Twiggs of the American revolution. In 1850 he suc- ceeded Gross in the University of Louisville, but resigned on the death of his wife in 1851. He was afterwards successively, professor of surgery in the University of Nashville, in Missouri Medical College, St. Louis, in 1868, yet had to resign as the climate did not suit him or his family, and returning to Nashville, accepted the chair of operative and clinical surgery in the University of Nashville in 1870. During his welt-filled forty-five years of sur- gery he became a skilled lithotomist, using largely the lateral perineal operation, and Meigs gives him the credit of being the first American to exsect the uterus in situ. He did also some fine operations in trephining and tracheotomy, the details of which can be seen in his largest work, "Remarkable Cases in Surgery" (1857). In this year he was presi- dent of the American Medical Association- There was an article on "One Hundred Cases of Lithotomy" (Transactions American Medi- cal Association, 1870), and "A Report on Hip- joint Operations performed by Confederate 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 wrote biographical sketches of more than two hundred physicians of the Southwest, for Johnson's Encyclopedia. Dr. Eve served as volunteer surgeon in the Mexican War, and in 1859, being in Europe, was present at the battles of Magenta and Solferino, contributing his notes to the Nash- znlle Medical and Surgical Journal. When the Civil War broke out, he became surgeon- general of Tennessee, and on the fall of Nash- ville w-as surgeon to the Gate City Hospital, Atlanta. After the death of his first wife, he married in 1852, Sarah Ann, daughter of the Rev. H. D. Duncan, of South Carolina. They had two sons and a daughter, both of the sons becoming physicians. Dr. Eve had a successful career in spite of defects of sight and hearing, for he was, from youth, myopic, was color-blind and could not distinguish one note of music from another. He was a teetotaler, using neither alcohol nor tobacco, and he was most regular