Frank Cecil Eve FRCP (15 February 1871 – 7 December 1952) was a senior

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, made famous by the "Eve Method" of

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Biography

Born on 15 February 1871 in Silsoe, Bedfordshire, Frank Eve was educated at

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, at

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, and at

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. He subsequently became a Consultant Physician at the

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. In 1915, he was elected as a

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of the

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. In 1932, his description of a new "rocking" method of

, which came to be known as the "Eve Method" and was adopted by the

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and by the

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, brought Eve international fame. Frank Eve died in Beverley on 7 December 1952.Obituary, ''The Times'', 10 December 1952

References

{{DEFAULTSORT:Eve, Frank Cecil 1871 births 1952 deaths People educated at Bedford School Alumni of Emmanuel College, Cambridge Alumni of St Thomas's Hospital Medical School Fellows of the Royal College of Physicians 20th-century English medical doctors People from Central Bedfordshire District