WHO DISCOVERED DIGESTIVE SYSTEM?WHO IS KNOWN AS THE FATHER OF GASTRIC PHYSIOLOGY?NAME HIS FAMOUS BOOK.
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Answer:
William Beaumont discovered digestive system. He is also known as the father of gastric physiology. His famous book is Open wound: The tragic obbsesion.
Explanation:
HOW DID DR. BEAUMONT DISCOVERED DIGESTIVE SYSTEM ?
On June 6, a person named Alexis St. Martin , was accidentally shot in the stomach, Dr. Beaumont treated his wound. Despite his best efforts, Dr. Beaumont could not cloe the hole in his stomach that never fully healed.
Dr. Beaumont recognised that he had, St. Martin, the unique opportunity to observe digestive processes. He began to perform experiments, on digestion, in the stomach if St. Martin. Most of these experiments were conducted by tying a piece of food to a string, and inserting it, through the hole, into St. Martin's stomach. Every few hours, Dr. Beaumont would remove the food & observe how well it had been digested. Dr. Beaumont also extracted a sample of gastric acid (digestive juice) from St Martin's stomach for analysis. He also used samples of stomach acid to “digest” bits of food in cups. This led to important discovery that stomach acids help to digest the food (into simple & soluble) nutrients, that the stomach can use. It was, thus, realised that digestion is primarily a chemical process, and not a mechanical one.