DUPLESSIS 



GUSTAVO G. DUPLESSIS 



Physician; teacher; surgeon. 



Gustavo G. Duplessis y Ajzpurua was 

 born on the twelfth of October, 1864, in the 

 city of Havana, but obtained his early edu- 

 cation in the Church schools at Guana- 

 bacoa, later returning to Havana where he 

 entered the University and obtained his 

 degree as Doctor of Medicine when he was 

 scarcely twenty years of age, in 1884. 

 Sometime later, being desirous of extending 

 his knowledge and obtaining a wider ex- 

 perience in his profession, he went to Paris, 

 there entered the University and obtained 

 a second degree of Doctor of Medicine in 

 1893, meantime obtaining invaluable train- 

 ing and experience through a term of 

 services as Interne and Externe in the 

 hospitals. 



In 1893 he returned to Havana, entered 



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