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NAME EVERTS 373 EWELL and methodical in his habits. He died sud- denly, while visiting a patient, November 3, 1877. A tolerably full list of his writings, which numbered some six hundred, may be found in the Surgeon-general's Catalogue, Washing- ton. Trans. Med. Soc, State of Tennessee, IS98, 83-88. D. J. Roberts. Trans. South. Surg, and Gyn. Assoc, 1897, vol. ix, 9-14. Louisville Med. News, 1877, vol. iv. Med. Rec. New York, 1877, vol. xii, 733. Med. and Surg. Reporter, Philadelphia, 1877, vol. xxxvii. Trans. .Amer. Med. Assoc., Philadelphia, 1878, vol. xxix, 641-646. Everts, Orpheus (1826-1903). The ancestors of Orpheus Everts came from Vermont and settled in Ohio in 1795. They included Mercy, daughter of Josiah Stan- dish, son of Miles Standish. Orpheus, son of Dr. Sylvanus and Elizabeth Heywood Ev- erts, was born in Salem Settlement, Indiana, on December 18, 1826, and after early edu- cation at local schools, studied medicine under his father and Dr. Daniel Meeker. Graduat- ing from the Medical College of Indiana in 1846, he later received honorary degrees from the University of Michigan and Rush Medical College. He began to practise in 1846 at St. Charles, Illinois, but after ten years (1846-1856) retired to take up the editorship of a newspaper in La Porte, Indiana, but after three years studied law, and was admitted to the bar in 1860. The beginning of the Civil War found him at the front, as surgeon and major of the twentieth regiment Indiana Volunteers. After the war he devoted his attention to psychiatry and diseases of the nervous system, and in 1868 was appointed superintendent of the Indiana Hospital for the Insane, a position held for eleven years ; and for thirteen years he was professor of nervous and mental dis- eases in the medical College of Indiana, then, until his death, medical superintendent of the Cincinnati Sanatorium. For thirty-four years he was an active and honored member of the American Medico-psy- chological Association and its predecessor, the American Association of Superintendents of Hospitals for the Insane. He married, March 14, 1847, Mary Richards, daughter of Dr. George W. Richards, of St. Charles, Illinois, and had five children : Charles Carroll, Juliet, Orpheus, William Porter, and Carolyn. Charles Carroll and William Porter graduated in medicine, but the latter died soon after finishing his course. Dr. Everts was a frequent contributor to the ccrning Civilization," a novel illustrating some and Company, or Views and Interviews Con- press. Among his more important contribu- tions to non-medical literature, were : "Giles phases of heredity; "The Cliffords," a philo- sophical allegory introducing impersonations of religion and science; "Facts and Fancies," in blank verse (a modern American epic) ; and he was author of numerous medical papers published in the American Journal of Insanity, the Cincinnati Lancet-Clinic, and Journal of the American Medical Association. One of the last acts of his professional life was to prepare a paper for the section on "Nervous and Mental Diseases" for the American Medi- cal Association at its meeting in New Orleans, in May, 1903, which appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Association, April 16, 1904. A tolerably full list is in the Surgeon-general's Catalogue, Washington, Dis- trict of Columbia. He died at his home in College Hill, Cin- cinnati, June 19, 1903. The cause of death was advancing years, and failure of the digestive functions. A. G. Drury. Ewell, Thomas (1785-1826). Thomas Ewell was born May 22, 1785, at Blairs, Prince George County, Virginia. He was the son of Col. Jesse Ewell and brother of Dr. James Ewell. He began the study of medicine with Dr. Weems of Georgetown, D. C, and graduated with the degree of M. D. in 1805 from the University of Pennsylvania. His inaugural essay, published in May, 1805, was entitled "Notes on the Stomach and Se- cretion." This is divided into two parts ; the first of which bears the caption "Relative to the Stomach," the second, "Relative to Secre- tion." Accepting the observation made by Spallanzi that the gastric juice of herbivorous animals would not dissolve muscular tissue, and that the gastric juice of carnivorous animals had no effect on vegetable substances, he proved by experiment that in two weeks a horse would "eat eighteen ounces of meat mixed with meal, at once, without hesitation." He also relates a case in which a lamb was raised on animal food and became "possessed of such unusual courage that it attacked a bull of the farm, and was killed in the conflict." He as- cribes to the gastric juice an antiseptic power, and states that it will not only prevent putre- faction, but that it will also arrest putrefaction when it has once begun. He isolated, by liga-