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YOUNG, John Richardson (1782 – 1804)

YOUNG, John Richardson (1782 – 1804)

1782 – 1804

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

Image source L. Lobin after Jacques Arago · Sketch August, 1819, from Arago, artist on the de Freycinet expedition in Hawaii State Archives, Brickwood Collection · Public domain

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1803 CE

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An experimental inquiry into the principles of nutrition, and the digestive process.

YOUNG, John Richardson (1782 – 1804)
YOUNG, John Richardson (1782 – 1804)

Young, one of the first American experimental physiologists, showed the solvent principle in the gastric juice to be an acid, but wrongly inferred that it was phosphoric acid. He also deduced the association and synch…