Francis D. Moore

Preface My surgical experience as a child was confined to appendicitis at age 12 and a fractured knee at 14. After the appendix operation, my rowdy friends came to call, and we got to laughing. It hurt. Surgery. As for the knee, maybe that carried some sort of an academic message, because...

INTRODUCTION " The present age is prolific of works on physiology; therefore in offering to the public another book relative to an important branch of this science, it will perhaps be necessary to assign my motives." William Beaumont, Experiments and Observations on the Gastric Juice and the...