BEAUMONT, William (1785 – 1853)
1785 – 1853
3 entries in the GMN corpus.
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1825 CE
#987.1
A case of wounded stomach [by Joseph Lovell].
Beaumont’s first report on Alexis St. Martin was accidentally published under the name of Joseph Lovell, Surgeon-General of the U.S. Army. See No. 989.
1826 CE
#987.2
Further experiments on the case of Alexis San Martin, who was wounded in the stomach by a load of buckshot.
In this and No. 987.1 Beaumont first described his revolutionary experiments on Alexis St. Martin. He continued these researches and published his monograph in 1833. See No. 989.
1833 CE
#989
Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion.
Alexis St. Martin, a Canadian half-breed who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont as the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach …