An inaugural experimental dissertation on digestion : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 17th day of May, 1796 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by John Wilson, A.M. of Pennsylvania, member of the Philadedhhia [sic] Medical Sosiety [sic].

  • Wilson, John, 1768-1835.
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MDCCXCVI [1796]
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Credit: An inaugural experimental dissertation on digestion : submitted to the examination of the Rev. John Ewing, S.T.P. provost ; the trustees and medical faculty of the University of Pennsylvania, on the 17th day of May, 1796 ; for the degree of Doctor of Medicine / by John Wilson, A.M. of Pennsylvania, member of the Philadedhhia [sic] Medical Sosiety [sic]. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    In this manner I would account for an acid be- ing produced in the ftomach, when an acetous acid is generated there. But, is the acid moft common]/ found in the ftomach, the pure acetous acid ? Is it not more properly called the phofphoric acid, which is evolved in the time of digeflion, or otherwife the carbonaceous matter of the faccharine part of theali- mentary mixture ftrongly attracting pure oxigene, forming thereby carbonic acid, fo frequently found in the ftomach ?* Now, feeing we fo conftantly obferve that fer- mentation, combuftion, and elective attraction pro- duce new and different changes in bodies indepen- dent of each other ; may we not confequently look for other changes to take place in the properties of bodies entirely different from either ? This we fee in the procefs of Digeflion, whereby two or more fub- ftances are decompofed, and re-combined in another * After having written the above pages, I met with the follow- ing Letter de M. Reynior, a M. dc la Metberie. The writer cf this letter informs M. de la Metherie, that pro- . fefTor Struve and M. Maquart, have difcovered that the phofpho- ric acid and volatile alkali arc the two eflential conftituent parts of the gaftric juice ; and M. Struve has compofed a liquor which acts on alimentary matters, in the fame manner as the gaflric juice. 'Journal de la Fbvfque.