ENT

ENT, SIR GEORGE, an eminent English physician, born at Sandwich, in Kent, in 1604. He was educated at Sidney College, Cambridge, and, having afterwards travelled into foreign countries, received the degree of doctor of physic at Padua. After his return he obtained great practice, was made president of the college of physicians in London, and at length received the honour of knighthood from King Charles II. He was extremely intimate with Dr. Harvey, whom he learnedly defended, in a piece entitled Apologia pro Circulatione Sanguinis, contra Emilianum Parisianum. He also published Animadversiones, and some observations in the Philosophical Transactions. Glanville, speaking in his Plus Ultra of the modern improvements in anatomy, numbers Sir George Ent, Dr. Glisson, and Dr. Wallis, with the most celebrated discoverers in that science. The two former were amongst the first members of the Royal Society. Sir George Ent died in October 1689.