Talk:William Beaumont

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William Beaumont was a distinguished Army surgeon, who lamented the fact that he was born to late (1785) to participate in the Revolutionary War; however, he achieved medical immortality by not only saving the life of a wounded Indian, but also discovering the process of digestion in the process. As medicines were in scarce supply, he grew his medicinal plants in the base garden at Fort Mackinac, Michigan, and was one of the first American physicians to use plants instead of chemicals as medicines. He died in St. Louis, Missouri in 1853. Numerous hospitals are named after him, and several medical schools have honor societies named euphoniously in his memory. William E. Beaumont