William Ewart (physician)
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William Ewart was an English
England
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 physician
Physician
A physician is a health care provider who practices the profession of medicine, which is concerned with promoting, maintaining or restoring human health through the study, diagnosis, and treatment of disease, injury and other physical and mental impairments...

 remembered for Ewart's sign
Ewart's sign
Ewart's sign is a set of findings on physical examination in people with large collections of fluid around their heart ....

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Biography

William Ewart was born in London
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 to a French
France
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 mother, and was educated partly in England and partly at the University of Paris
University of Paris
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. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, qualifying LRCS in 1871 and LRCP in 1872. He gained his M.B. in 1877 from Cambridge University. He worked at St George's Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital
Royal Brompton Hospital
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, becoming a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians
Royal College of Physicians
The Royal College of Physicians of London was founded in 1518 as the College of Physicians by royal charter of King Henry VIII in 1518 - the first medical institution in England to receive a royal charter...

 in 1881 and Doctor of Medicine
Doctor of Medicine
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 in 1882. He retired in 1907.

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