Author:  Mary Roach
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Here is what William Beaumont had to say about saliva: "Its legitimate and only use, in my opinion, is to lubricate the food to facilitate the passage of the bolus through the {esophagus}." Beaumont was right about some things, but he was dead wrong about spit.

( Mary Roach )
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