Alexis St. Martin sat on a hospital bed and watched the falling snow coat a large ship docked in the Anacostia River. He wished he could put his woolen shirt back on, but Dr. William Beaumont probed at a hole in his stomach with a metal tool. “See how the skin grows around the wound rather than over it?” the doctor said to half a dozen Naval hospital physicians based in Washington, D.C., who were crowded around St. Martin. “The …
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