Show A pioneer in physiology in 1822 william beaumont an army y surgeon began an what was to be the most important contribution to the physiology of digestion in cen aurles for eight years he made a 8 tudy study of alexis st JA martin artin a french efrench canadian who had the misfortune to havea have a permanent t opening in his stomach due to a gunshot wound in 1833 beaumont published his experiments peri ments and observations on the gastric juice abia ana the physiology of digestion which was the foundation of modern dietetics |