EXPERIMENTS AND OBSERVATIONS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE, AND THE PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION

by William Beaumont

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First edition

Boston: Lilly, Wait, and Company. Printed by F. P. Allen, 1834. Second issue with cancel title bearing the Boston imprint; first published Plattsburg, N. Y., 1833 . 8vo. 280 pp. Three illustrations. Considered the most important study of digestion before Pavlov Garrison-Morton . Beaumont had the first edition printed in Plattsburg, New York, where he had once practiced medicine. According to Beaumont, the original edition consisted of only 1000 copies, but

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