Beaumont, William

William Beaumont (1785-1853) experimented with the gastric juices of a patient with a permanent hole in his stomach. He published his results in 1833, and was the first to explain how the stomach conld digest food. Extracts from this publication are fascinating ... 

CMnical Chemist, William Beaumont Hospital Royal Oak, Michigan,... 

William Beaumont (182) Examination of acid secretion in humans... 

Sokoloff, B., Eddy, W. H., Beaumont, J, Williams,., and Powella, R., Effect of ascorbic acid and glucoascorbic acid on nucleic acids in tumor tissue. Cancer Research 15, 147-150 (1955). 

Beaumont, Francis, and Fletcher, John. A King and No King. In The Dramatic Works in the Beaumont and Fletcher Canon. Vol. 2. Edited by George Walton Williams general editor Fredson Bowers. Cambridge Cambridge University Press, 1970. 

Harold L. Dauerman University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A. Simon R. Dixon William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.A. Matthew Gutierrez University of Vermont, Burlington, Vermont, U.S.A. 

William W. O Neill William Beaumont Hospital, Royal Oak, Michigan, U.S.A. 

J. A. Bennett, S. A. Johnston and A. V. Simcock, Solomon s House in Oxford New Einds from the Eirst Museum, Museum of the History of Science, Oxford, 2000, 31-48 for chemical, 48-58 for anatomical remains. Many of the perishable items in the original Tradescant Collection decayed away or else were lost or destroyed due to neglect. Some are now conserved in the Founder s Room of the Ashmolean Museum, Beaumont St, Oxford, while some anatomical pieces - such as the bony remains of the famous Dodo bird - are on display in the University Museum, Parks Road, Oxford. Anthony J. Turner, Robert Plot , Oxford DNB. William Wilder s apothecary s shop and laboratory stood on the south side of the High Street, around what is now No. 80, just east of Thomas Willis s private hospital at Bostar Hall and the Angel Inn, by Logic Lane. See Brookes, Experimental Chemistry in Oxford (n. 27), 30. Gunther, Early Science in Oxford vol. I (n. 28), 50. 

Patail, B. M., and Arahana, A. N. (1995), Role of the Biomedical Engineering Department in William Beaumont Hospital s technology assessment process, J. Clin. Eng. 20(4) 290-296. 

Because saliva is so much easier to obtain than gastric juice, the study of mucus throughout the nineteenth century was largely confined to mucus of saliva. Nevertheless, at the end of the first third of the nineteenth century, William Beaumont stated, in publishing incidental observations about the state of Alexis s stomach, the themes about secretion of mucus that physiologists would develop in the twentieth century. 

Figure 9-2. Table from William Beaumont s Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion (Plattsburg, NY, 1833). The table continues for two and a half more pages.

The topic is discussed in detail in Bylebyl JJ. William Beaumont, Robley Dunglison, and the Philadelphia physiologists. J Hist Med 25 3-31,1970 and in surveys of the history of digestion in chapters VII, VIII, and IX in Holmes, Claude Bernard n. 3), pp 141-196. 

Dunglison s letter is quoted in Myer JS. Life and Letters of Dr. William Beaumont. St Louis, Mosby, 1939, p 160. 

William Beaumont Professor of Physiology Emeritus The University of Michigan... 

Dear GJ, Munoz-Muriedas J, Beaumont C, Roberts A, Kirk J, Williams JP, Campuzano I. Sites of metabolic substitution investigating metabolite structures utilising ion mobility and molecular modelling. Rapid Commun Mass Spectrom. 2010 24 3157-62. 

Just as both William Lithgow arrd the rrineteenth-cerrtury vicar of Beaumont worried that a permeable border worrld lead to sexual impropriety, so the Attendant Spirit associates a strongly rrrarked border with the preservation of chastity. 

William Beaumont was born on November 25, 1785, in Lebanon, Connecticut, and began his study of medicine at the age of 22 years. In the War of 1812, he accepted a position in the Army as an acting surgeon s mate and saw active service. In 1819, after a brief spell in practice, his former colleague, Joseph Lovell, who had now become Surgeon General, offered Beaumont a commission, and he was assigned to Fort Mackinac. 

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