THE

PHYSIOLOGY OF DIGESTION,

WITH

EXPERIMENTS ON THE GASTRIC JUICE.

BY WILLIAM BEAUMONT, M. D.

Surgeon in the U. S. Army.

Second Edition.

CORRECTED BY SAMUEL BEAUMONT, M. D.

BURLINGTON:

CHAUNCEY GOODRICH.

1847.

The Franelo A. Countway
Library of Medicine

Entered according to act of Congress in the year 1846,

BY CHAUNCEY GOODRICH,

In the Clerk's office of the District Court of the District of Vermont.

Whose merit justly entiles him to the rank
which he holds,

And whose zeal in the cause of Medical Science is
equalled only by his ability to promote it,
As a tribute of respect for his public and private

virtues,

And as a feeble acknowledgment for a long
tried and unvarying friendship,

This work is respectfully dedicated, by

THE AUTHOR.

PREFACE TO THE SECOND EDITION.

B THE PUBLISHER.

THIS work was first published in 1833. That edition, though a very large one, (3000 copies,) has been for some time exhausted, and the present publisher has made arrangements with Dr. Beaumont to publish another edition.

Of the merits of the work, it is not necessary, perhaps, to speak. It has been for some years before the scientific public, who are the best judges of its value. That the author himself has seen no reason to change the views and opinions he entertained in 1833, on the questions then brought into discussion, will be sufficiently manifest when the reader is informed, that this second is simply a reprint, with a few verbal corrections, of the first edition.

But if the verdict of the press, both domestic and foreign, scientific and secular, is to be regarded as evidence of merit and success, the author has succeeded beyond his most sanguine expectations. To insert these commendatory articles in detail would be to swell this preface to a volume. With a view, however, of showing the estimation in which this work is held by those best entitled to judge, it will not be improper to make one or two quotations: A writer in the "Journal of Medical.