Show A Pioneer in hi Physiology In 1822 William Beaumont an nn army surgeon began what was to tobe tobe tobe be the most important contribution to the physiology of digestion in cen cen- For eight years he made a study of Alexis St. St Martin a French Canadian who had the misfortune to have a permanent opening in his stomach due to a gunshot wound In 1833 Beaumont published his Experiments Experiments Ex and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the Physiology of Digestion which was the foundation foundation foundation tion of modern dietetics |