An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”

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YOUNG, John Richardson

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An experimental inquiry into the principles of nutrition, and the digestive process.

Philadelphia: Eaken & Mecum, 1803.

Young, one of the first American experimental physiologists, showed the solvent principle in the gastric juice to be an acid, but wrongly inferred that it was phosphoric acid. He also deduced the association and synchrony between gastric juice and saliva. Reprinted, Urbana, Ill., 1959.



Subjects: GASTROENTEROLOGY › Anatomy & Physiology of Digestion, NUTRITION / DIET