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Plattsburgh, NY

1 entries published in this place. (Plattsburgh, US)

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 …