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BEAUMONT, William. Experiments and Observations On The Gastric Juice And The Physiology Of Digestions By...Facsimile of the Original Edition of 1833 Together With A Biographical Essay by Sir William Osler.
Boston: Reprinted on the Occasion of the XIIIth International Physiological Congress, 1929. Facsimile edition. Tall 8vo., orig. cloth backed paper boards, printed paper spine label, xl, (2), (1)-280pp. Ownership inscription of biochemist I.W. Grote on the front free e/paper o/w a near fine copy in a near fine d/w.
"Alexis St. Martin, ...who had sustained a gastric fistula, was treated and investigated by Beaumont. With his human medium, Beaumont was the first to study digestion and the movements of the stomach in vivo. His work on the subject was the most important before Pavlov." G & M for the first edition of 1833 but noting this facsimile edition.