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The Wiki Room E14: Human Experiments On Digestion - Alexis St Martin


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It's hard to really know how the human digestive system works without an actual look inside, especially a couple centuries ago. But what if someone was given that exact opportunity to take a look inside the stomach and experiment with it. Even if it might seem unethical or radical. Well, this is exactly what happened to American Army physician William Beaumont; and his subject Alexis St Martin, a young man with a permanently open gunshot wound to his stomach. 

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The Wiki Room - Learning with FriendshipBy Kevin Baghdassarian and Ryan Hicks