The physiology of digestion, with experiments on the gastric juice / By William Beaumont.

  • Beaumont, William, 1785-1853.
Date:
1847
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    PRELIMINARY OBSERVATIONS. wae I do not design, in the following remaks, to present a systematic treatise on digestion. Works of this kind, investigating the subject both phystologically and pathologically, have so multiplied of late, as to render any attempt on my part, entirely a work of supereroga- tion; even if I believed myself qualified for the task. I consider myself but a humble inquirer after truth— a simple experimenter. And if I have been led to con- clusions opposite to the opinions of many who have been considered the great luminaries of physiology, and, in some instances, from all the professors of this science, I hope the claim of sincerity will be conceded to me, when I say that such difference of opinion has been forced upon me by the convictions of experiment, and, as I think, the fair deductions of reasoning. I shall not attempt an anatomical description of the work professedly elementary, such descriptions are essential. The medical profession are acquainted with these organisms. 'T‘he general reader, if he have a wish for information of this kind, is referred to anatom- ical authors generally, or tothe physiological writings of Richerand, Broussais, Magendie, Bostock, Fordyce. Paris, Jackson and Dunglison, the last of which, as containing the sum of what has been taught in the a Ce SY ee ee