Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, and the Physiology of Digestion

by William Beaumont

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First edition · Signed

Plattsburgh, NY: F. P. Allen, 1833. First edition, inscribed by Beaumont to James W. Kingsbury, of “the most important study of digestion before Pavlov” Garrison-Morton , this is “the first great American contribution to physiology” and “the most important presentation copy extant” historyofinformation.com . Sir William Osler called Beaumont 1785-1853 “the

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