Observer Editor
“America’s First Medical Experiments in the Wilds of Northern Michigan: A 19th-Century Physician’s 33-Year Study of Digestion via a Fur Trader’s Abdominal Shotgun Wound”: U-M Osher Lifelong Learning Institute Distinguished Lecture Series
Retired U-M internal medicine professor Joel Howell discusses how physician William Beaumont performed long-range experiments through an opening in a patient he first treated on Mackinac Island in 1822. Second in a series of 4 monthly lectures. 10–11:30 a.m., WCC Morris Lawrence Bldg., Towsley Auditorium, 4800 E. Huron River Dr. Preregistration required at olli-umich.org. $105 (members, $55) for the 4-lecture series. $25 per lecture (members, $15). Membership, $50 a year. (734) 998–9351.