摘要：Notwithstanding all circulated stories to the contrary, the great number of preserve toriginal letters and other documents prove that William Beaumont never succeeded in bringing Alexis St. Martin to St. Louis for further experiments on digestion. In 1852, less than a year before Beaumont died, he tried without success to induce his subject to come to him from Canada. It is also known that St. Martin visited the United States after the death of Beaumont, but his presence in St. Louis, at any time, could not be verified, despite occasional vague assertions to that effect. None who had personal knowledge of it are still among the living, and all talk of it has lately been purely a matter of somewhat distorted, partly remembered fragments of hearsay information, offered by one's elders in by-gone decades.
