Beaumont's Contribution to Gastric Psychophysiology: A Reappraisal

@article{Mai1988BeaumontsCT,
  title={Beaumont's Contribution to Gastric Psychophysiology: A Reappraisal},
  author={François M. Mai},
  journal={The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry},
  year={1988},
  volume={33},
  pages={650 - 653}
}
  • F. Mai
  • Published 1 October 1988
  • Medicine
  • The Canadian Journal of Psychiatry
William Beaumont's monograph on the physiology of digestion which was first published in 1833, has become a classic in its field. In a series of experiments over a 10 year period on Alexis St. Martin, a 19 year old Canadian voyageur with a traumatic gastric fistula, Beaumont was the first to describe many important aspects of the digestive process. In two of the 238 experiments Beaumont noted gastric physiological changes induced by emotional arousal, these being bile reflux and delayed gastric… 
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