(MEDICINE.) Beaumont, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion.

(MEDICINE.) Beaumont, William. Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion. 280 pages. 8vo, publisher's cloth-backed boards, worn; foxing and some mildew spotting; bookplate on the front pastedown; modern cloth box. Plattsburgh: F. P. Allen, 1833

first edition. Alexis St. Martin, a French-Canadian fur trader, "had a hole blown into his stomach by the accidental discharge of a musket loaded with duck shot. The permanent gastric fistula or 'window' that this wound left in St. Martin's abdomen enabled Beaumont to make the first accurate scientific study of the physiological processes of gastric digestion"--Grolier, Medicine 61; Howes B291; Garrison-Morton 989; Grolier American 38; Norman 152; Heirs of Hippocrates 1411.
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