Complete Record - Heirs of Hippocrates No. 2074

CARL ANTON EWALD (1845-1915) Die Erkrankungen der Schilddrüse, Myxodem und Cretinismus. Alfred Hölder 1896 vi, 247 pp., double-page col. map, 19 illus. 24.1 cm.

Born at Berlin, Ewald studied medicine at Heidelberg and Bonn before receiving his degree at Berlin in 1870. He then served as assistant to Frerichs (see No. 1877) at the University of Berlin until 1876 when he was named chief physician of the city's institution for invalid women. In 1888 he succeeded Senator (see No. 1993) as head of the department of internal medicine at Berlin's Augusta Hospital, where he remained until his death. Ewald was an active medical journalist, was editor of the Berliner klinische Wochenschrift from 1881 to 1907, and wrote a number of medical monographs which were popular and well received. Ewald is especially well known for his research on the physiology and pathology of the digestive system and his investigations into diseases of the liver and thyroid gland. He was a pioneer in the use of intubation for examining the contents of the stomach. Together with his pupil, Ismar Boas (1858-1938), he devised the test breakfast for use in studying digestive disorders. The present work was published as Volume XXII of Nothnagel's Specielle Pathologie und Therapie and is devoted to diseases of the thyroid gland with emphasis on myxedema and cretinism.

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