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Guts

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Beaumont's Experiments

Alexis St. Martin worked for Fort Mackinac doctor Beaumont as a man-servant in 1825. He was given raw salted fat pork, corn beef and stale bread to eat through an artificial perforation on his stomach. Two days later the guy was alive. As the months passed, this kid... St. Martin gets better. But a year later he still has his whole in his stomach. The whole never closes. This is straight out of a movie.

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