Gastric digestion

Abstract

Synopsis. "Beaumont" first gives a brief description of the anatomy of the human stomach, using a crude chalkboard diagram. This is followed by an account of the shotgun accident to the fur-trapper Alexis St. Martin at fort Mackinac in michigan Territory in 1822. "Beaumont" then recounts his classic observations and experiments on gastric digestion, conducted through the hole in Alexis' stomach that never healed. He demonstrates digestion of egg albumin. He selects some of the more important of his 51 conclusions from his book gastric juice and the physiology of digestion, and offers advice on keeping a full, rigorously accurate journal and of following truth wherever it leads. "Truth is most adorned when unadorned". © 1988 by the American Society of Zoologists.