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DIGESTIVE SYSTEM
EXPERIMENT ON DIGESTION BY DR. WILLIAM BEAUMONT William Beaumont was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who
became known as the "Father of Gastric Physiology" following his research on human digestion
HIS FIRST CHAPTER WITH ALEXIS ST. MARTIN On June 6, 1822, in the American Fur Company on Mackinac Island, a French-Canadian voyageur named Alexis St. Martin was shot in the upper left abdomen; the musket wound was "more than the size of the palm of a man's hand," Beaumont wrote, and affected part of a lung, two ribs, and the stomach. Dr. Beaumont treated the wound, but he was repeatedly unsuccessful in fully closing the hole in St. Martin's stomach; for a while, the hole had to be covered to prevent food and drink from coming out. St. Martin was now unable to work as a voyageur, so in April 1823 Beaumont hired him as the family's live-in handyman chopping wood, mowing a field, etc.
and umami.
Via small openings in the tongue epithelium, called taste pores, parts of the food dissolved in saliva come into contact with taste receptors.
These are located on top of the taste receptor cells that constitute the taste buds. The taste receptor cells send information detected by clusters of various receptors and ion channels to the gustatory areas of the brain via the seventh, ninth and tenth cranial nerves.