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PROF. GEORGES DIEUIAFOY, a celebrated Paris physician, was born on November 18, 1839, at Toulouse, where his uncle, Paul Dieulafoy, was professor of clinical surgery in the medical faculty and induced him to become a doctor. After acting as his uncle's house surgeon for two years, he went to Paris to complete his education and spent seven years as hospital resident under Trousseau, Volpeau, Denon-villiers, Jaccoud, Potain, Axenfeld and Tardieu. He qualified in 1869 with a thesis on sudden death in typhoid fever. In 1872 he became an assistant professor (agrégé) with a thesis on contagion, and the following year published a medico-chirurgical treatise on the diagnosis and treatment of morbid fluids in which he described the aspirator to which his name has been given. In 1880 appeared the first edition of his famous “Pathologie de médecine interne”, which in the course of thirty-one years went through sixteen editions and was translated into English, Italian, Spanish, Russian, Polish and Greek. Six years later he was appointed to the chair of internal pathology at the Necker Hospital, where he remained until 1896, when he succeeded Germain Sée at the Hôtel Dieu as professor of clinical medicine; he held that office until his retirement in 1909. During this period he published a number of clinical lectures in six volumes under the title of “Clinique médicale de l'Hôtel Dieu de Paris”. In 1910 he was elected president of the Academy of Medicine, of which he had been a member since 1879. His death took place on August 16, 1911, at the age of seventy-two.
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Prof. Georges Dieulafoy (1839–1911). Nature 144, 861 (1939). https://doi.org/10.1038/144861b0
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