William Beaumont's Formative Years

Human Torulosis

Two of the note-books of William Beaumont, now in the possession of Washington University College of Medicine, have been reproduced, misspellings and all, in their entirety. The first of these note-books is Beaumont's medical note-book containing excerpts from medical authors, case histories, comments on Army medicine, prescriptions, and descriptions of methods for treating diseases. This note-...

William Beaumont's Rendezvous with Fame *

William Beaumont's Letter to His New Haven Bookseller, Hezekiah Howe, With a Bibliographical Description of the Editions of Beaumont's Book *

The present year marks the centenary of publication of the first great contribution to physiology by an American author. Some indeed have regarded William Beaumont's Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice, published in Plattsburgh in 1833, as the most important work in the history of American physiology.t It therefore seems fitting at this time to set down any details concerning the ...

Cannon of Harvard

William Bradford Cannon was born in 1871 in Prairie du Chien, Wisconsin, the site of Fort Crawford, where William Beaumont conducted classic experiments on digestion . Cannon would distinguish himself as a physiologist of Beaumont's rank . Although he was founder of the gastrointestinal roentgen examination and maintained an interest in gastroenterology throughout his life, Cannon's most produc...

The Clinical Value of Gastric Secretion Tests

A Lectmre lelivereti at the Queen's University of Belfast on October 3ist, 1955, un/er the auspices of the British Council. You all know the story about William Beaumont, the army surgeon, who took care of Alexis St. Martin, the young French Canadian, who was severely wounded by an accidental discharge of a shotgun, which left him for the rest of his life with a hole in his side, through which ...