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- William Beaumont (November 21, 1785 – April 25, 1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology " for his research on human digestion on Alexis St. Martin.
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William Beaumont (November 21, 1785 – April 25, 1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" for his research on human digestion on Alexis St. Martin. [1] [2]
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WHO WAS WILLIAM BEAUMONT? Born in 1785, U.S. Army Major William Beaumont joined the U.S. Army as a surgeon’s mate during the war in England in 1812. At war’s end, he resigned his position and went into private medical practice. He subsequently applied for reinstatement in the Army in 1819.
William Beaumont (born Nov. 21, 1785, Lebanon, Conn., U.S.—died April 25, 1853, St. Louis, Mo.) was a U.S. army surgeon, the first person to observe and study human digestion as it occurs in the stomach.
- The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica
Aug 26, 2021 · William Beaumont (1785-1853) was a United States Army surgeon who served in the War of 1812 and spent over two decades as a physician at frontier army forts located in New York, Michigan, Wisconsin, and Missouri.
To commemorate the 175th anniversary of the St. Louis Metropolitan Medical Society, we remember the world’s first great experimental gastroenterologist, Dr. William Beaumont. Most physicians are unaware that after his groundbreaking experiments on digestion when he was an army surgeon in Michigan, Beaumont moved to St. Louis where he had a ...
- Arthur Gale
- Nov-Dec 2021
- Mo Med. 2021 Nov-Dec; 118(6): 518-519.
Jun 27, 2018 · The American surgeon William Beaumont is remembered for extensive studies of the human digestive system based on the experiments of a live patient. Early life and career. William Beaumont was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, on November 21, 1785.
May 22, 2019 · As Mary Roach, the author of Gulp: Adventures on the Alimentary Canal, told Gastropod, a surgeon named William Beaumont discovered that the bullet hole offered a literal opening into the...
