[Beaumont, William] (Samuel Colhoun, ed.)
A Case of Wounded Stomach" Pages 14-19 of the Medical Recorder of Original Papers and Intelligence in Medicine and Surgery; Vol. 8
Philadelphia, James Webster, 1825. Hardcover. Cloth over paper boards. Boards edge-worn and discolored; rear board chipped in a few areas and warped due to dampstain; cloth backstrip wrinkled, with a couple worn spots, tear at bottom end, and a couple small remnants of torn label; large dampstain on rear endpapers, last pages, and content pages; top corner of rear free endpaper torn where it stuck to inside rear cover; pages slightly foxed, with text browned. The dampstain does not affect the Beaumont article. 847p. (Missattributed to James Lovell, an error corrected on page 840). The whole of volume 8 is present, containing dozens of other medical reports, but probably none as significant as this initial report by William Beaumont on the first two years of his treatment of Alexis Saint Martin. Martin's accidental abdominal wound provided Beaumont with the opportunity to conduct pioneering experiments on gastric juices, which, continued for several more years, resulted in 1833 in the publication of his landmark book, Experiments and Observations of the Gastric juice and the Physiology of Digestion. In addition to becoming a milestone in the understanding of digestion, Beaumont's work has more recently sparked debate on the ethics of treatment which was pretty clearly contrary to the patient's best interest. (GM 987.1). .
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