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FALLEN 870 FALLEN Dr. Martyn Paine accomplished a great work for medical education in having the bill re- pealed forbidding the dissection of the human body, in 1854. He spent much time in Albany, where he personally argued before the Legis- lature in favor of the repeal of the anatomical bill, and in spite of the popular feeling, he succeeded in securing enough votes so that dissection of the human body could be done without violation of law. This enabled medical students to dissect bodies which are obtained under legal restrictions, and did away with grave robbery and cleared the way for advance in medical education. Dr. Paine was a member of many local med- ical societies, including the New York Acad- emy of Medicine. Among his foreign medical memberships may be mentioned the Royal Verein filr Heilkunde, Gesellschaft fiir Natur und Heilkunde zu Dresden, also medical so- cieties of Leipsic and of Sweden, and the Montreal Natural History Society. The University of Vermont conferred upon him the degree of LL. D. in 1854. He was married in 1825 to Mary Ann Weeks, the daughter of Ezra Weeks. They had three children. Frederic S. Dennis. Cat. of grads. and officers of Med. Dept., Univ. of City of N. y.. 1872. Diet, of Amer. Biog., F. S. Drake. 1872. Med. Rcc., N. Y., 1877, vol. xii. 735. Med. and Surg. Reporter, 1866, vol. nv, 63. Appleton's Cyclop, of Amer. Biog., 1S87, 628. Lippincott's jBiog. Dictn'y., 1877. Fallen, Montrose Anderson (1836-1892) Montrose Anderson Fallen, gynecologist of St. Louis and New York City, was born in Vicksburg, Mississippi, January 2, 1836, and died in New York, October 1, 1892. His father, Moses Montrose Fallen (q. v.), was professor of obstetrics in the St. Louis Medical College for over twenty years. Montrose was gradu- ated A. B. at St. Louis University in 1853 and A. M. and M. D. at the same institution in 1856, then spending two years in study abroad, and settling in practice in St. Louis on his return. He was professor of gynecology then in Humboldt Medical College, adjunct profes- sor of obstetrics in the St. Louis Medical Col- lege, professor of gynecology in St. Louis Col- lege of Physicians and Surgeons, and profes- sor of anatomy in the Missouri Medical Col- lege, holding all of these appointments between 1866 and 1874. In the latter year he was called to the chair of gynecology in the medical de- partment of the University of the City of New York, and this he filled until 1882. During the Civil War he was medical director under Gen- erals Wise and Hardee until 1863, and in the closing years of the war was sent to Canada and abroad on missions by the Confederate Government, finally being captured and held on parole in New York. In 1857 Dr. Fallen married Anne Elize, daughter of Louis A. Benoist of St. Louis, and they had two children. The Post Graduate Medical School and Hos- pital was organized in 1883, partly as a result of Dr. Fallen's efforts. He was a surgeon to the Charity Hospital and a member of the New York Obstetrical Society. He contributed prize essays on the ophthalmoscope and on uterine anomalies to the American Medical Association in 1858 and 1869 and in later life furnished papers to the medical journals on a variety of subjects, but for the most part on g3'necology. Eminent Amer. Pliys. and Surg., R. F. Stone, 1894, 363. Phys. and Surgs. of U. S., W. B. Atliinson, 1878, 162. Fallen, Moses Montrose (1810-1876) This obstetrician was the son of one Zalma Fallen, a Polish officer, who served under Napoleon I, and came to Virginia in 1800 and settled in King and Queens County, where Moses was born on April 29, 1810. The lad was educated at the University of Virginia and went to St. Louis in 1842. Among the professors of the St. Louis Medical College, none was more popular than Dr. Fallen, for he was indeed a teacher by nature, who adapted himself perfectly to the student classes of his time. He was of medium height, stocky build, an exceedingly solid looking man. He had a big head, well shaped, covered with, a crop of gray hair; a broad round face, seemingly almost as equally broad as it was long. He wore a close cropped mass of side whiskers, his eyes were small and sparkling, his eyelids large and puffy. He had a strong fat nose, a large mouth with big lips, which were constantly relaxed and compressed fitfully at the com- mand of his mind. A student, writing of him in the classroom, says : "His intense mind guides and forms his words, his memory is an ever-ready stock from which he draws capital to enhance the value of his discourse and compel truth itself. He tells you that when you approach the lying-in woman you are nearer to the throne of God than the stars of heaven are. that living is death and dying is life, and birth is both; that birth into this life is the death of the embryo-life. God grant that our earthly death may be our birth into a glorious new being. Watch this suf- fering and pained lying-in creature, in her harsh