Georges M. Dupuy Explained

Georges M. Dupuy
Birth Date:8 April 1858[1]
Birth Place:Paris, France
Death Date:20 December 1935 (aged 77)
Death Place:West Dulwich, London, England
Nationality:French
Profession:Physician
Field:Medical illustration
Notable Works:The Stretcher Bearer and Baillière’s atlases of the male and female body

Georges Marie Dupuy (8 April 1858 – 20 December 1935) was a French physician and medical illustrator known for The Stretcher Bearer (1915), and his drawings for Baillière's atlases of the male and female body and for Comyns Berkeley's Atlas of Midwifery (1926).

Early life and family

Georges Dupuy was born in Paris to Paul Dupuy and Catherine Schmidt.[1] [2] He married an Englishwoman, Amy Harriet Evens, in New Jersey, United States, in 1895.[2]

Career

Dupuy qualified as a physician with the degree of M.D. but is best known as a medical illustrator. His first book was The Stretcher Bearer: A Companion to the R.A.M.C. Training Book (1915), under the general editorship of D'Arcy Power, when he was serving with the Stretcher-bearer Ambulance Section of C. Norwood Company, Lambeth Battalion, Volunteer Training Corps[3] which included 138 photographs showing correct practice in stretcher-bearing.[4]

He is best known, however, for his plates for Baillière's atlases of the male and female body, for which Hubert E.J. Biss provided the text, and for Comyns Berkeley's Atlas of Midwifery (1926).[5] He prepared the plates that were used up to the third edition of Baillière. For the fourth edition onwards, around 1952, the plates were drawn by Douglas J. Kidd.[6]

Death

Dupuy died on 20 December 1935. His address at the time of his death was 51 Rosendale Road, West Dulwich, Surrey. Probate was granted in 1936 to his widow, Amy.[7]

Selected publications

Dupuy prepared the illustrations for the following works:

Notes and References

  1. Paris, France & Vicinity, Births, 1700-1899
  2. https://www.familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:FZK3-7MQ George Dupuy New Jersey, Marriages, 1670-1980.
  3. Dupuy, Georges M. (1915) The Stretcher Bearer &c. London: Henry Frowde and Hodder & Stoughton. Title.
  4. https://vdocuments.mx/the-stretcher-bearer-oxford-war-primers-under-the-general-editorship-of.html "The Stretcher-Bearer"
  5. Book: Chamberlain, Geoffrey.. From Witchcraft to Wisdom: A History of Obstetrics and Gynaecology in the British Isles. 2007. RCOG Press. London. 978-1-904752-14-1. 330.
  6. http://explore.bl.uk/BLVU1:LSCOP-ALL:BLL01000116401 Baillière's Atlas of Female Anatomy.
  7. https://probatesearch.service.gov.uk/Calendar/GetImgSrc?filePath=%2F1936%2FD%2F001194_dunton_1936.Png 1936 Probate Calendar. p. 204.