Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / By William Beaumont.
- William Beaumont
- Date:
- 1833
Licence: Public Domain Mark
Credit: Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / By William Beaumont. Source: Wellcome Collection.
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![with his wife and two children, to me, at Fort Craw- ford, Prairie du Chien, Upper Mississippi, a distance of nearly two thousand miles, in August, 1829. His stomach and side were in a similar condition as when he left me in 1825. The aperture was open, and his health good. He now entered my service, and | commenced an- other series of experiments on the stomach and gastric fluids, and continued them, interruptedly, until March, 1831. During this time, in the in- tervals of experimenting, he performed all the duties of acommon servant, chopping wood, carrying bur- from his wound. He laboured constantly, became the father of more children, and enjoyed as good health and as much vigour as men in general. He subsisted on crude food, in abundant quantities, ex- cept when on prescribed diet, for particular experi- mental purposes, and under special observance, In the spring of 1831 circumstances made it expe- dient for him to return with his family from Prairie du Chien to Lower Canada again. I relinquished his en- gagements to me for the time, on a promise that he for himself, wife and children. They started in an open canoe, via the Mississippi, passing by St Louis, Mo.; ascended the Ohioriver; thencrossed the state tario, and the River St. Lawrence, to Montreal, where his family until] October, 1832, in good health, and at](https://iiif.wellcomecollection.org/image/b33280356_0025.jp2/full/800%2C/0/default.jpg)
