History of Davidson County, Tennessee, with illustrations and biographical sketches of its prominent men and pioneers, Part 72

Author: Clayton, W. W. (W. Woodford)
Publication date: 1880
Publisher: Philadelphia, J.W. Lewis & Co.
Number of Pages: 1013

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The committee on business offered the following resolu- tion :

" Resolved, That a committee of three be appointed to examine the constitutions and proceedings of the various State medical societies and report at the next annual meet- ing such amendments and by-laws as may tend to make this body, in fact as well as in name, the representative of a great State."

Carried, and Drs. J. B. Lindsley, J. J. Abernethy, and P. D. Sims were appointed said committee.

1875 .- Senate-chamber, Capitol, Nashville, April 6, 1875. The Tennessee Medical Society convened for its forty-second annual session, Dr. James B. Murfree, of Mur- freesboro', president of the society, in the chair. Twenty- three physicians answered to the roll-call. The committee appointed at the last meeting of the society to present amend- ments to the constitution and by-laws presented an elaborate report through their chairman, Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley, set- ting forth the efficiency, utility, and value of associated effort, and recommending the present revised constitution of the society, which was unanimously adopted after a full and free discussion at the next annual meeting, held in 1876. Action was taken at the meeting in 1875 to have the full proceedings of the session published in pamphlet form, a practice which has been kept up each year since, thus putting into the hands of the profession an annual of great interest and value to its members. A history of the medical profession in Tennes- see has also been provided for by the society through its historian, Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley, who has collected much valuable material for the work, and will no doubt issue it under the auspices of the society at no very distant day. Dr. Lindsley at this meeting reported progress, and " was granted further time for the completion of 'The Medical Annals of Tennessee.'" The following were the officers elected for 1876: President, Dr. J. II. Van Deman, of Chattanooga ; Vice-Presidents, Dr. P. D. Sims, East Ten- nessee ; Dr. J. J. Abernethy, Middle Tennessee; Dr. P. F. Ewans, West Tennessee; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. F. M. Wight, Chattanooga. The committee appointed at the last meeting to memorialize the Legislature in reference to the creation of a State board of health reported through their chairman, Dr. E. M. Wight, that they had drawn up a bill covering the wishes of the society, which had been presented to the Legislature, but had failed to become a law. The committee was continued. The following dele- gates to the American Medical Association were appointed this year: Drs. J. C. Roberts, J. Saudek, J. D. Plunket, Thomas Lipscomb, William L. Nichol, Thomas Menees, E. M. Wight, R. F. Evans, S. S. Mayfield, Duncan Eve, T. A. Atchison, W. P. Jones, T. L. Maddin, D. J. Roberts, F. M. Hughes, S. H. Bundy, J. M. Jameson.

1876 .- The annual meeting this year, for the purpose of reorganizing the society, was held in the Senate-chamber, at the Capitol, on the 4th of April, the president, Dr. J. H. Van Deman, in the chair. About sixty physicians re- sponded to the roll-call. Rev. J. H. Baird opened the meeting with prayer. The following officers were elected for the ensuing year : President, J. J. Abernethy ; Vice- Presidents, Drs. F. Bogart, East Tennessee ; J. H. Dickens, Middle Tennessee ; S. T. Evans, West Tennessee; Dr. R.

D. Winsett, Corresponding Secretary ; Dr. Duncan Eve, Permanent Secretary ; J. W. McAlister, Recording Secre- tary ; Dr. J. D. Plunket, Treasurer. Delegates to the American Medical Association, Drs. J. M. Towler, G. W. Moody, E. M. Wight, J. D. Wallis, F. M. Hughes, E. L. Drake, N. G. Tucker, J. F. Grant, J. D. Pluuket, Van S. Lindsley. Delegates to the International Medical Congress, Drs. Paul F. Eve, Van S. Lindsley, D. C. Gordon, W. P. Jones, J. H. Van Deman, W. C. Cook, Thomas Menees, F. Bogart, J. B. Buist, S. S. Mayfield, H. J. Warmouth, A. Blitz.

1877 .- On the 3d of April this year the forty-fourth annual session of the Medical Society of the State of Tennessee began in the Senate-chamber, at the Capitol, Dr. J. J. Abernethy presiding. The session was opened by prayer by Rev. T. A. Hoyt, D. D. About sixty delo- gates were present. Dr. W. A. Atchison delivered an ad- dress of welcome. The annual address by the president was an able production, and was referred to the committee on publications. Dr. B. W. Avent, of Memphis, was unanimously elected president for the ensuing year. Vice- Presidents, Drs. J. W. Copeland, East Tennessee; R. F. Evans, Middle Tennessee; Heber Jones, West Tennessee; Permanent Secretary, Duncan Eve; Recording Secretary, A. Morrison ; Corresponding Secretary, R. D. Winsett ; Treasurer, J. D. Plunket. Delegates to the American Medical Association, Drs. Paul F. Eve, W. T. Briggs, W. K. Bowling, C. C. Abernethy, W. P. Jones, R. F. Evans, R. B. Maney, E. M. Wight, W. L. Nichol, S. S. Mayfield, D. D. Saunders, D. J. Roberts, J. A. Draughon, P. D. Sims, J. G. Sinclair, J. D. Plunket, Duncan Eve, J. B. W. Nowlin, F. B. Sloan, W. F. Glenn.

1878 .- The forty-fifth annual meeting of the society was held at Cochran Hall, in the city of Memphis, and be- gan at eleven o'clock A.M., on the 2d of April, 1878. The session was opened with prayer by Rev. Dr. Parsons. A large number of physicians were in attendance, and were appropriately welcomed in an eloquent speech by Dr. D. D. Saunders, of Memphis. The officers elected for the ensu- ing year were the following: Dr. R. F. Evans, President; Dr. E. M. Wight, Vice-President for East Tennessee; Dr. . H. J. Warmuth, Vice-President for Middle Tennessee; Dr. D. D. Saunders, Vice-President for West Tennessee; Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley, Permanent Secretary ; Dr. Am- brose Morrison, Recording Secretary ; Dr. R. W. Mitchell, Corresponding Secretary ; Dr. J. D. Plunket, Treasurer. Delegates to the American Medical Association, Drs. W. R. Mitchell, B. W. Avent, D. D. Saunders, R. B. Maury, J. II. Van Deman, S. T. Evans, Thomas Lipscomb, Duncan Eve, W. K. Bowling, W. T. Briggs, W. F. Glenn, D. J. Roberts, Van S. Lindsley, W. P. Jones, J. B. Murfree, J. B. W. Nowlin, Thomas Mences.

1879 .- The forty-sixth annual meeting of the society was held at the Capitol. The number in attendance was the largest during the history of the society, and the pro- ceedings were unusually interesting and important, espe- cially as regards the subject of sanitary medicine. The session convened April 1, 1879, and continued three days. Dr. E. M. Wight, of Chattanooga, was elected president. The vice-presidents were as follows: East Tennessee, Dr.

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B. B. Lenoir ; Middle Tennessee, Dr. N. G. Tucker ; West Tennessee, Dr. G. B. Thornton ; Permanent Secretary, Dr. J. Berrien Lindsley ; Recording Secretary, Dr. Ambrose Morrison ; Corresponding Secretary, Dr. R. W. Mitchell ; Treasurer, Dr. J. D. Plunket; Delegates to the American Medical Association, Drs. R. F. Evans, P. D. Sims, S. F. Evans, W. K. Bowlin, W. P. Jones, G. A. Baxter, Mar- shall Reed, D. J. Roberts, G. W. Moody, H. J. Warmuth, Duncan Eve, W. T. Briggs, A. Blitz, Thomas Menees, W. F. Glenn, W. T. Hope, T. A. Atchison, B. B. Lenoir, Thomas Lipscomb, J. B. Murfree.

The National Board of Health, being at this time organ- ized, sent the following dispatch, which was read by Dr. J. D. Plunket, and in answer thereto Dr. W. P. Jones moved that the president of the State Board of Health join the president of this society in a dispatch of congratulation to these officers, which was carried :

" WASHINGTON, D. C., April 2, 1879.

" TO THE PRESIDENT OF THE STATE MEDICAL SOCIETY : " I have the honor to inform you that the National Board of Health is now permanently organized. "J. L. CABELL, President. " T. J. TURNER, Secretary."

In accordance with the above resolution, the following dispatch was sent :

" NASHVILLE, April 2, 1879.

" J. L. CABELL, M.D., President of the National Board of Health, Washington, D. C.

" We, jointly, by resolution of the Tennessee Medical Society, send warmest congratulations to National Board of Health upon its organization, and recognize the fact that a brilliant era has but just dawned upon America in regard to sanitary reform.

" E. M. WIGHT, M.D., " President of Tennessee Medical Society. " J. D. PLUNKET, M.D., " President State Board of Health."

MEMBERS RESIDENT IN DAVIDSON COUNTY.

The following is a list, so far as furnished by the pub- lished proceedings of the society, of the members resident in Davidson County, with the names of the respective uni- versities from which they received their diplomas :

Abbay, J. S., Nashville, University of Nashville. Anderson, R. S., Nashville, University of Nashville. Atchison, Thomas A., Nashville, Transylvania University. Atchison, W. A., Nashville, University of Louisville. Atchison, C. C., Nashville, University of Nashville. Bailey, P. R., Nashville, University of Nashville. Baxter, M., Nashville, University of Nashville. Benson, G. G., Edgefield.

Beauchamp, J. A., Nashville, University of Nashville. Blackie, George S., Nashville, University of Edinboro'. Blackman, William C., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Blitz, A., Nashville, Cincinnati Medical College. Bonner, M. H., Jr., Nashville, Vanderbilt University. Bowling, W. K., Nashville. Briggs, W. T., Nashville, Transylvania University. Briggs, C. S., Nashville, University of Nashville. Bright, W. C., Edgefield, University of Nashville. Brodie, C. A., Nashville. Buchanan, T. B., Nashville, University of Nashville. Buist, J. R., Nashville, University of New York.

Bundy, S. H., Nashville, University of Nashville. Callender, J. H., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Campbell, M., Nashville, University of Nashville. Cantrell, G. M. D., Nashville, University of Nashville. Cheatham, W. A., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Cheatham, Richard, Nashville, Bellevue Hospital Medical Col- lege.

Clark, H. A., Edgefield, Rush Medical College. Cobb, S. J., Nashville, University of Nashville. Compton, H. M., Nashville, University of Nashville. Conwell, Ira, Nashville, Cincinnati Medical College. Cook, W. C., Nashville, University of Nashville. Currey, G. W., Nashville, University of Nashville. Draughton, J. A., Nashville, Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Douglass, J. C., Nashville, University of Nashville. Dow, T. Chalmers, Nashville, University of Nashville. Du Pre, D., Nashville, University of Nashville. East, A. A., Nashville, Nashville Medical College. Eve, Paul F., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Eve, Duncan, Nashville, Bellevue Hospital Medical College. Foster, R. C., Nashville, University of Nashville. Fort, John T., Nashville, University of Missouri. Glenn, W. F., Nashville, University of Nashville. Grizzard, R. W., Edgefield Junction, University of Nashville. Hall, B. W., Nashville.

Haggard, W. D., Nashville, Jefferson Medical College. Horton, W. D., Nashville, University of Nashville. Henry, G. P., Nashville, University of Nashville. Harrington, J. J., Nashville.

Hawkins, M. S., Nashville, University of Nashville. Harwell, J. R., Nashville, University of Nashville. Harris, J. E., Nashville, University of Nashville. Hollowell, B. F., Nashville, University of Nashville. Hubard, G. W., Nashville, University of Nashville. Hughes, F. M., Nashville, University of New York. Jamison, S. M., Edgefield, University of New York. Jamison, J. M., Edgefield, University of Nashville. Jennings, T. R., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Jordon, J. H., Nashville, University of Nashville. Jones, W. P., Nashville.

Kercheval, J. M., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Key, B. P., Nashville, University of Nashville. Kimbrough, T. R., Nashville, University of. Nashville. Lewis, C. L., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Lindsley, J. Berrien, Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Lindsley, Van S., Nashville, University of Nashville. Lyle, A. J., Edgefield.

Martin, Robert, Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Manlove, B. F., Nashville, University of Nashville. Manlove, J. E., Nashville, Transylvania University. Maddin, Thomas L., Nashville, University of Louisville. Maddin, J. W., Nashville, University of Nashville. McAlister, J. W., Nashville, Vanderbilt University. McConnell, J. B., Nashville, University of Nashville. McFarland, J. P., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. McLean, J. L., Nashville, University of Louisville. Menees, Thomas, Nashville, Transylvania University. Menees, T. W., Nashville, Vanderbilt University. Menees, O. H., Nashville, Vanderbilt University. Mitchell, Charles, Nashville, University of Louisville. Morgan, W. H., Nashville, University of Nashville. Morrison, A., Nashville, University of Nashville. Morton, J. W., Sr., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Newman, John C., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Nichol, W. L., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Nowlin, J. B. W., Nashville, Jefferson Medical College. Plunket, J. D., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Plunket, J. M., Nashville, Shelby Medical College. Pool, E. F. P', Nashville, University of Nashville. Powell, Thomas L., Nashville, University of Nashville. Reed, Marshall, Nashville, University of Nashville. Ristine, C. E., Edgefield, University of Pennsylvania. Roberts, G. W., Nashville. Safford, J. M., Nashville, University of Nashville. Schniff, G., Nashville, University of Wuersburg, Germany.

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Simmonds, J. H., Nashville. Sinclair, J. G., Nashville, University of New York. Sneed, J. W., Nashville, University of Nashville. Saudek, J., Nashville, University of Louisville. Steger, R. W., Nashville, Vanderbilt University. Stephens, James B., Nashville, University of Nashville. Stephens, J. B., Nashville, University of Nashville. Stubblefield, D. R., Nashville, Vanderbilt University. Summers, T. O., Nashville, University of Nashville. Thompson, Rezine, Edgefield. Tucker, N. G., Nashville, University of Nashville. Vertrecs, W. M., Edgefield, University of Louisville. Weakley, B. F., Edgefield. Wharton, William H., Nashville, University of Pennsylvania. Winston, C. K., Nashville, Transylvania University. Winston, J. D., Nashville, Transylvania University. Winston, W. C., Nashville, University of Nashville. Whittemore, W. H., Nashville, Nashville Medical College. Whitworth, W. E., Nashville, University of Nashville. Wilkies, J. H., Nashville.

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We give below a list of physicians of Davidson County who have served as officers, members of committees, or been chosen delegates to important medical bodies by the Ten- nessce Medical Society since 1875.

OFFICERS.

1875 .- Recording Secretary and Treasurer, J. D. Plun- ket, M.D., Nashville. Dr. Plunket has been elected each year since treasurer of the society, and is the present in- cumbent of that office.

1876 .- Corresponding Secretary, R. D. Winsett, M.D .; Permanent Secretary, Duncan Eve, M.D .; Recording Sec- retary, J. W. McAlister, M.D., Nashville.

1877 .- Corresponding Secretary, R. D. Winsett, M.D .; Permanent Secretary, Duncan Eve, M.D., Nashville.

1878 .- Permanent Secretary, J. Berrien Lindsley, M.D. ; Recording Secretary, Ambrose Morrison, M.D., Nashville.

1879 .- Vice-President for Middle Tennessee, N. G. Tucker, M.D .; Permanent Secretary, J. Berrien Lindsley, M.D .; Recording Secretary, Ambrose Morrison, M.D., Nashville.

DELEGATES TO ASSOCIATIONS.

American Medical Association .- 1876, J. D. Plunket, M.D., Van S. Lindsley, M.D., F. M. Hughes, M.D., N. G. Tucker, M.D .; 1877, Paul F. Eve, M.D., W. F. Briggs, M.D., W. K. Bowling, M.D., W. P. Jones, M.D., W. L. Nichol, M.D., J. A. Draughon, M.D., J. G. Sinclair, M.D., J. D. Plunket, M.D., Duncan Eve, M.D., J. B. W. Now- lin, M.D., W. F. Glenn, M.D .; 1878, Duncan Eve, M.D., W. K. Bowling, M.D., W. T. Briggs, M.D., W. F. Glenn, M D., Van S. Lindsley, M.D., W. P. Jones, M.D., J. B. W. Nowlin, M. D., Thomas Menees, M.D .; 1879, W. K. Bowling, M.D., W. P. Jones, M.D., G. A. Baxter, M.D., Marshall Reed, M.D., Duncan Eve, M.D., W. T. Briggs, M.D., A. Blitz, M.D., Thomas Menees, M.D., W. F. Glenn, M.D., T. A. Atchison, M.D.

International Medical Congress .- 1876, Paul F. Eve, M.D., J. R. Buist, M.D., Van S. Lindsley, M.D., A. Blitz, M.D., W. P. Jones, M.D., W. C. Cook, M.D.

Medical Society of Virginia .- 1876, Duncan Eve, M.D., R. D. Winsett, M.D .; 1877, J. B. W. Nowlin, M.D.

Medicul Society of Kentucky .- 1876, Van S. Lindsley, M.D., C. E. Ristine, M.D., T. A. Atchison, M.D., M. Bax- ter, M.D.

COMMITTEES.

On Publications .- Drs. J. D. Plunket, Thomas Menees, J. Berrien Lindsley, 1875 ; T. L. Maddin, W. C. Black- man, Duncan Eve, W. C. Cook, R. D. Winsett, 1876; J. D. Plunket, J. R. Buist, C. S. Briggs, J. W. Maddin, Duncan Eve, 1877 ; J. Berrien Lindsley, J. D. Plunket, Ambrose Morrison, J. W. Maddin, 1878; W. L. Nichol, J. R. Buist, Ambrose Morrison, Richard Cheatham, 1879.

On Arrangements .- Drs. Duncan E'ves, Van S. Lindsley, G. W. Currey, 1875; J. R. Buist, W. A. Atchison, C. S. Briggs, 1876; W. L. Nichol, J. R. Buist, W. A. Atchi- son, W. P. Jones, 1878.

On Business .- T. L. Maddin, 1875; W. P. Jones, 1876; W. L. Nichol, W. P. Jones, 1877; T. O. Summers, 1878; Duncan Eve, 1879.

On Essayists .- W. P. Jones, 1875; W. L. Nichol, A. A. East, 1876; W. P. Jones, W. L. Nichol, 1877; J. B. W. Nowlin, 1878; Van S. Lindsley, W. C. Cook, 1879.

On Necrology .- W. K. Bowling, J. Berrien Lindsley, 1875; J. Berrien Lindsley, W. K. Bowling, 1876; Paul Eve, W. K. Bowling, J. Berrien Lindsley, 1877; T. A. Atchison, W. K. Bowling, J. Berrien Lindsley, 1878.

BRIEF MEMOIRS.

PAUL FITZSIMMONS EVE, A.B. and A.M. (Franklin College-now University of Georgia) ; M.D., University of Pennsylvania ; Bearer of the Golden Cross of Honor of Poland; President of the American Medical Associa- tion, 1857-58; President of the Tennessee State Medical Society, 1871-72; Centennial Representative of Surgery to the Medical Congress of Nations at Philadelphia, 1876; Professor of Surgery in the Medical College of Georgia from 1832 to 1849; Professor of Surgery of the Univer- sity of Louisville in 1850, and in the Medical Department of the University of Nashville from 1851 to 1868; Pro- fessor of Surgery in the Missouri Medical College at St. Louis in 1868-69; Professor of Operative and Clinical Surgery in the Medical Departments of the Nashville and Vanderbilt Universities from 1870 to 1876, and Professor of Surgery in the Nashville Medical College, now the Medical Department of the University of Tennessee, in 1877. Died in Nashville, the home of his adoption, in the morning of the 3d of November, 1877.

Besides the duties of a most exacting profession, and constant and laborious services as lecturer and teacher, he was editorially connected with professional journalism for many years, and was the author of very numerous mono- graphs upon surgery. He was an associate editor of the Nashville Medical and Surgical Journal, associate editor of the Southern Medical and Surgical Journal at Augusta, the author of " Remarkable Cuses in Surgery," and the contributor of more than six hundred articles to medical periodicals, being original papers, reports of cases, and bio- graphical sketches of eminent medical men of the South- west.

Paul F. Eve was born on the Savannah River, near the city of Augusta, Ga., June 27, 1806. He was the youngest of ten children of Capt. Oswell and Aphra Ann Eve. His parentage on the father's side was English, and on the mother's Irish. Drs. Rush, James, and Shippen, of Phila-

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Prof. Eve completed his literary studies of four years in the Franklin College of Georgia. During this collegiate term he never missed a single recitation, and graduated third on the list of his class. He went thence immediately to Philadelphia, and commenced the study of medicine under the celebrated Charles D. Meigs. He attended two courses of lectures in the University of Pennsylvania, and received his degree of Doctor of Medicine in the spring of 1828. His diploma bears the memorable names of Drs. Hare, Cox, Jackson, James, Dewees, Chapman, Gibson, Horner, and Physick. His thesis was on " Uterine Hæmor- rhage," a subject on which his renowned preceptor was amply proficient to impart ideas that are standard at the present day.

Immediately after the death of his father, progress in his profession being the sole incentive, he sailed for Europe, and landed at Liverpool late in the year 1829. After a brief sojourn in London, where he had letters to Sir Astley Cooper, Abernethy, and others, and became acquainted at that time and at subsequent visits with such men as Coul- son, Billings, Sir James Paget, Sir James Thompson, Sir William Thompson, and others, he crossed over to Paris, and followed the courses of instruction given by Dupuytren, Laney, Roux, Lispane, Cruvielhier, Trousseau, Rostan, Recamier, Andrae, Ricord, Louis, Civiale, and others, cither during this sojourn or afterwards.

In May, 1831, when nearly all Europe was ablaze in political turmoil and excitement, after having witnessed the dethronement of Charles X. in Paris, and having partici- pated professionally in the revolution of the three days (July 27, 28, and 29, 1830), with a heart ever beating to the warm and noble impulses of gratitude, remembering well how the gallant Pulaski had fallen at the siege of Savannah during our Revolutionary struggle of '76, with an earnest desire to repay that debt to the best of his ability, he started for Poland to offer his services in resisting the oppression of Russia. After a short detention in Berlin, with the assistance of letters from La Fayette and the Polish Committee at Paris, but especially through the in- tervention of Dr. Graffe (himself a Pole), and his own indomitable energy and untiring will, he at length reached Warsaw, and was assigned to hospital service in that city.

For unremitting devotion to duty, and ample evidences of his ability, he was soon promoted to surgeon of the Fifteenth Regiment of Infantry, and surgeon of ambulances attached to Gen. Turno's division. "The Golden Cross of Honor" was conferred on him by recommendation of Count Placa, chief of the medical bureau. During the storming and capture of Warsaw, on the 7th and 8th of September, 1831, he was, fortunately, out of the city on duty. After an imprisonment at Werichaw of thirty days, he finally reached Paris late that year, and immediately sailed from Ilavre for New York, where he arrived after a tedious voyage, having been absent from his native land more than two years, filling his capacious and retentive mind with much actual experi- ence and many valuable ideas emanating from the renowned men with whom he was in frequent contact.

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