Carl Anton Ewald
German gastroenterologist
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(Suggest an Edit or Addition)According to Wikipedia, Carl Anton Ewald was a German gastroenterologist who was a native of Berlin. He was the brother of physiologist Ernst Julius Richard Ewald . In 1870, he earned his medical doctorate in Berlin, and subsequently became an assistant to pathologist Friedrich Theodor von Frerichs . In 1888, he was appointed head physician of the department of internal medicine at Augusta Hospital in Berlin. Carl Ewald was a pioneer in the field of gastroenterology, and was a catalyst in making Augusta Hospital a center for pathological studies of digestion. Ewald is remembered for investigations of gastric secretions, and the introduction of intubation as a medical aid in gastric analysis. The eponymous "Ewald tube" is named after him, a device that serves as a gastric tube for emptying the contents of the stomach.
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