This valvular protrusion was easily depressed
by the finger. St. Martin suffered little pain except from the
depression of the skin. He took his food and drink like any
healthy person, and for eleven years remained under Dr.
Beaumont's own care in the Doctor's house as a servant. During
this time were performed the experiments on digestion which are
so well known. St. Martin was at all times willing to lend
himself in the interest of physiologic science. In August, 1879,
The Detroit Lancet contains advices that St. Martin was living at
that time at St. Thomas, Joliette County, Province of Quebec,
Canada. At the age of seventy-nine he was comparatively strong
and well, and had always been a hard worker. At this time the
opening in the stomach was nearly an inch in diameter, and in
spite of its persistence his digestion had never failed him.
Spizharny relates a remarkable case of gastric fistula in the
loin, and collects 61 cases of gastric fistula, none of which
opened in the loin. The patient was a girl of eighteen, who had
previously had perityphlitis, followed by abscesses about the
navel and lumbar region. Two fistulae were found in the right
loin, and were laid open into one canal, which, after partial
resection of the 12th rib, was dilated and traced inward and
upward, and found to be in connection with the stomach.
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