Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion.; Facsimile of the original edition of 1833, together with a biographical essay "A Pioneer American Physiologist" by Sir William Osler.
Cambridge, (MA): Harvard U. Press, 1929. First edition. 8vo. xl, 290 pp. Portrait frontispiece, in-text illustrations from wood engravings, facsimile title page. Beaumont was able to view the process of digestion as a result of a shotgun wound to the stomach of a French-Canadian outdoorsman. Howes B-291: "Most important American..... More
