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Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / By William Beaumont. Reprinted from the Plattsburgh edition, with notes by Andrew Combe.

  • Beaumont, William, 1785-1853.
Date:
1838
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Credit: Experiments and observations on the gastric juice, and the physiology of digestion / By William Beaumont. Reprinted from the Plattsburgh edition, with notes by Andrew Combe. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    ~ PREFACE. 3 ened public, who, I doubt not, will duly appreciate the truths discovered, and the confirmation of opinions which before rested on conjecture. I submit a body of facts which cannot be invalidated. My opinions may be doubted, denied, or approved, ac- cording as they conflict or agree with the opinions of each individual who may read them; but their worth will be best determined by the foundation on which they rest—the incontrovertible facts. I avail myself of this opportunity to make my grateful acknowledgments to Doctor Joseph* Lovell, Surgeon- General of the United States’ Army, (to whom I am un- der obligations for personal kindness and official exer- tions in affording facilities for prosecuting the experi- ments ;)—to Professors Silliman, Knight, Ives, and Hub- bard,.of Yale College; Dunglison, of the Virginia Uni- versity, and Sewal, Jones, Henderson, and Hall, of Columbian College, for their unsolicited friendship ; for the interest which they have taken in the experiments, and for the generous encouragement which they have given to the proposed publication. To Doctor Samuel Beaumont, of Plattsburgh, N. Y., I am particularly in- debted, for the assistance which he has rendered me in arranging and preparing my notes for the press. PLATTSBURGH, 1833.