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About 1895 Benjamin Moore, then an assistant professor of physiological chemistry at University College London, began to assemble data for his chapter on “Chemistry of the Digestive Processes,” to be published in 1898 in the first volume of E. A. Schäfer’s Text-book of Physiology.1 To establish the composition of gastric juice, Moore quoted the data that Carl Schmidt had collected in Dorpat and had published in Bidder and Schmidt’s Die Verdauungssaefie and der Stoffwechsel in 1852 (Table 1-1).2

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Davenport, H.W. (1992). Secretion of Hydrochloric Acid. In: A History of Gastric Secretion and Digestion. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-7602-3_1

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