Symptoms and Physical Signs. A Formulary for Clinical Note-Taking, with examples

London: Bailliere, Tindall and Cox, 1892. First edition.

1892 THE NUTS-AND-BOLTS OF DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS AND RECORDING THE HISTORY AND PHYSICAL EXAMINATION FOR MEDICAL STUDENTS IN TURN-OF-THE-CENTURY ENGLAND.

7 inches tall slim hardcover, 3/4 leather binding with pebbled cloth covered boards, gilt title to spine, gray endpapers with red cloth tape to hinges, 1 inch diameter pewter (?) seal affixed to top verso of table of contents with decorative book-plate of D. Lafano below, containing woodcut silhouette of elegant woman. xiv, 82 pp, corners worn, spine bright, light uniform browning to text, pages unmarked, overall very good minus in custom archival mylar cover.

WILLIAM EWART (1848-1929) was born in London to a French mother, and was educated partly in England and partly at the University of Paris. He studied medicine at St George's Hospital Medical School, his studies were interrupted by military service with the French Army in the War of 1870. After his military service he earned his M.B. in 1877 from Cambridge University. He worked at St George's Hospital and the Royal Brompton Hospital. Only 7 copies located on OCLC