Alexis St. Martin, Canadian patient of W. Beaumont Stock Image H419/0169 Science Photo Library


The Curious Case of Alexis St. Martin

When he got there, Beaumont found Canadian man, Alexis St. Martin - who had a notorious reputation for drinking too much and causing trouble - severely wounded from the blast. The gunshot struck his chest and abdomen, leaving a large hole in his midsection.


Alexis St. Martin, el hombre con un agujero en el cuerpo que le permitió a los científicos

Martin, an illiterate French Canadian indentured servant working as a fur trapper for the American Fur Company, was shot in the gut by a fellow trapper at the Mackinac Island trading post.


Alexis St. Martin, patient of Dr. William Beaumont Science stories, Male sketch, Ephemera

Alexis St. Martin didn't die-but his life was irrevocably changed. On this day, 195 years ago, St. Martin was accidentally shot at Fort Mackinac, Michigan. And he never fully healed.


Alexis St. Martin (Live at Kallasch&) YouTube

In 1822, French-Canadian voyageur, Alexis St. Martin, was visiting the post of the American Fur Trading Company on the island. He was accidentally shot at close range by a shot gun. The pellets penetrated his abdomen doing damage to his stomach and his ribs. Beaumont was summoned to treat him, though St. Martin wasn't expected to survive.


The Curious Case of Alexis St Martin YouTube

The fort became the refuge for a wounded 19-year-old French-Canadian fur trader named Alexis St. Martin when a shotgun went off by accident in the American Fur Company store at close range June 6th, 1822. St. Martin's wound was quite serious because his stomach was perforated and several ribs were broken.


Alexis SaintMartin (17941880) L'hommecobaye du Docteur... par Serge Gauthier Littérature

A man whose gunshot wound created a window into his stomach enabled scientists to understand digestion. But the patient, a fur trapper named Alexis St. Martin, also transformed how physiologists.


Alexis Saint Martin, el extraordinario caso del hombre probeta Revista de Historia Historia

subject, Alexis St. Martin, this article demonstrates how the "research ethics" of antebellum America were predicated on models of employment, servitude, and labor. The association between Beaumont and St. Martin drew from and was understood in terms of the ideas and practices of contract labor, informal domestic


Alexis St. Martin, Canadian patient of W. Beaumont Stock Image H419/0169 Science Photo Library

Analyzing William Beaumont's relationship with his experimental subject, Alexis St. Martin, this article demonstrates how the "research ethics" of antebellum America were predicated on models of employment, servitude, and labor. The association between Beaumont and St. Martin drew from and was understood in terms of the ideas and practices of.


Alexis St. Martin, el hombre con un agujero en el cuerpo que le permitió a los científicos

Alexis St. Martin, opening a gaping wound in the twenty-eight-year-old French-Canadian voyageur, who was working for the American Fur Company in northern Michigan. Within a half hour of the accident, Beaumont, an army surgeon stationed at nearby Fort Mackinac, was at the scene administering first aid and watching the young man's


Alexis St. Martin age 67, Library London

Contract between William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin, October 1832. As he was finalizing his research for publication, Beaumont had Alexis St. Martin submit to a legal contract binding him for one year to "obey, suffer & comply with all reasonable & proper orders or experiments," in return for $150 plus "good, suitable & sufficient meat, drink, washing, lodging and wearing apparel."


The Curious Case of Alexis St Martin (June 6, 1822) YouTube

It was there that in June 1822 a gun went off accidentally, shooting Alexis St. Martin, a young Canadian fur trapper who was standing not more than three feet away. The bullet rent a hole the size of a man's hand, fractured the fifth and sixth rib, lacerated the left lobe of the lungs, and perforated the diaphragm and stomach.


Alexis St. Martin, el hombre con un agujero en el cuerpo que le permitió a los científicos

More activity by Alexis. I'm a 24-year-old and I don't drink alcohol. A lot of people assume that I must be a party-hard type with all the events happening in our industry.…. Liked by Alexis Martin. Eating less meat can help you live longer — and it's great for the environment, too!


Dr. William Beaumont and Alexis St. Martin Mackinac State Historic Parks Mackinac State

Alexis St. Martin and William Beaumont have one of the strangest relationships in the history of medicine — a young French-Canadian fur trapper with a hole in his stomach from an errant shotgun blast and the American army physician who cared for him, and then made his own career by turning Alexis into a human guinea pig.


Shotgun Blast to The Stomach The Alexis St Martin Story YouTube

Beaumont became an army surgeon. His future fame rested on a chance medical encounter with Alexis St. Martin, an illiterate worker who was accidentally shot in the chest by a musket. Beaumont attended to the patient within a half hour of the injury. St. Martin's left lung and stomach had prolapsed into the wound.


William Beaumont’s momentous and experiments Becker Medical Library

Alexis Bidagan dit St-Martin (April 8, 1802 [a] - June 24, 1880) was a Canadian voyageur who is known for his part in experiments on digestion in humans, conducted on him by the American Army physician William Beaumont between 1822 and 1833. St-Martin was shot in a near-fatal accident in 1822.


How a bizarre gunshot wound changed the history of medicine OpenMind

Alexis St. Martin was in his 20s and strong, about 5 feet, 5 inches tall, with dark hair and dark eyes. He worked as a voyageur, a hardy and adventurous job that entailed paddling pelt-laden canoes from Native American villages to the company's trading posts.

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