Duncan Eve, Sr.

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Title

Duncan Eve, Sr.

Subject

VUMC History, Surgery, Vanderbilt Alumni

Description

Photographic portrait of Duncan Eve Sr. Duncan Eve, Sr. was born in a prominent medical family of Southern surgeons and educators. Eve received his A.B. from the University of Nashville in 1870 and his M.D. from Bellevue Medical College in 1874. For many years Eve served as chief surgeon for the Nashville, Chattanooga, and St. Louis Railroad and as district surgeon for the Louisville and Nashville Railroad. He made significant contributions to the understanding of traumatic surgery, publishing a textbook entitled Fractures in 1907. Eve served as Professor of Surgery at Vanderbilt University Medical School from 1905 to 1925. Additionally, the doctor held a surgical practice in Nashville, at which he partnered with his son, Dr. Duncan Eve Jr. and Dr. William H. Edwards.

Creator

Anonymous

Source

Vanderbilt University History of Medicine Collections Photographic Archive

Date

1925 (circa)

Rights

Copyright is retained by the authors of items in these papers, or their descendants, as stipulated by United States copyright law.

Type

Still Image

Identifier

484

Item Type Metadata

People Depicted

Ordered left to right as they appear in the image, starting from the top left.

Original Format

Photographic print

Physical Dimensions

8 in. x 10 in.

Contribution Form

Online Submission

No

Collection

VUMC People

Citation

Anonymous, “Duncan Eve, Sr.,” VUMC Through Time: A Photographic Archive, accessed August 3, 2026, https://eblthroughtime.library.vanderbilt.edu/items/show/2015.

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