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Beaumont, William (21 Nov. 1785-25 Apr. 1853),
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physician and physiologist, was born in Lebanon, Connecticut, the son of Samuel Beaumont and Lucretia Abel, farmers. Little is known about his early life, except that he attended a local common school and disliked farming. At age twenty-one he ...

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