Author:  Mary Roach
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Beaumont had been trying to determine whether the gastric juice would work outside of the stomach, removed from the body's "vital force." {It does.} He filled vial after vial with St. Martin's secretions and dropped in all manner of foods. The cabin became a kind of gastric-juice dairy."

( Mary Roach )
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