Date: 08/08/2022 Shift: 2:00 PM – 4:00 PM Q. No: 12

The working of the stomach was 1.______ by a strange accident. In 1822, a man named Alexis St. Martin was 2. ______ hit by a shot gun. The bullet had seriously 3. ______ the chest wall and made a hole in 4. ______ stomach. He was brought to an American army 5. ______ William Beaumont.
The doctor saved the patient but he 6. ______ not close the hole properly. Beaumont took it as a 7______ opportunity to see the inside of the stomach 8. ______ the hole. He made some wonderful observations. Beaumont 9. ______ that the stomach was churning food. Its wall secreted a fluid 10. ______ could digest the food. He also observed that the end of the stomach opens into the intestine only after the digestion of the food inside the stomach is completed.