Abstract
For out of old fieldes as men saith, Cometh all this new come fro yere to yere; And out of old books, in good faith, Cometh all this new science that men lere.... Chaucer On June 6, 1822, at Fort Mackinac, Mich., a shotgun was accidentally discharged. The resultant explosion jarred the entire scientific world and awakened echoes that have rolled down through the decades to the present. A Canadian lad, aged 18, had collapsed. His name was Alexis St. Martin. When he recovered from shock 30 minutes later, his eyes met the sympathetic countenance of the fort surgeon, William Beaumont. The powder and duck shot had entered the boy's left side one yard from the muzzle of the musket. Penetrating posteriorly, the eruption passed obliquely forward and inward, tearing away the integument and muscles the size of a man's hand. It blew off the anterior part of the sixth
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