American Medical Biographies/Piper, Richard Upton
Piper, Richard Upton (1816–1897)
Richard Upton Piper, physician and artist, of Portland, Maine, Boston and Chicago, was born April 3, 1816, in Stratham, New Hampshire. He graduated in medicine at Dartmouth Medical School in 1840 and was a member of the Massachusetts Medical Society from 1843 to 1876, living in Boston. Then he went to Chicago, where he practised medicine. He was the author of the following works: "Operative Surgery," illustrated with about 2,000 drawings by himself (Boston, 1852); "Trees of America" (1857); and he drew illustrations for Maclise's Surgical Anatomy. He wrote a "Report on Diseased Milk and the Flesh of Animals Used for Human Food" (Chicago, 1879), and contributed to The New Orleans Medical and Surgical Journal and the New York Evening Post. He was said to have "the eye of an artist, the hand of a draughtsman and the spirit of an enthusiast."
He died in Newport, Maine, August, 1897.