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YOUNG, John Richardson (1782 – 1804)

1782 – 1804

1 entries in the GMN corpus.

1803

#982

An experimental inquiry into the principles of nutrition, and the digestive process.

Young, one of the first American experimental physiologists, showed the solvent principle in the gastric juice to be an acid, but wrongly inferred that it was phosphoric acid. He also deduced the association and synch…