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Encyclopedia > Beaumont

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Beaumont can refer to:


Places

In Australia

Beaumont is a suburb of Adelaide in the City of Burnside. ...

In Belgium

Beaumont is a municipality located in the Belgian province of Hainaut. ...

In Canada

Beaumont is a town in central Alberta, Canada near the Irvine Creek. ...

In France

  • Beaumont, Ardèche, in the Ardèche département
  • Beaumont, Corrèze, in the Corrèze département
  • Beaumont, Gers, in the Gers département
  • Beaumont, Haute-Loire, in the Haute-Loire département
  • Beaumont, Meurthe-et-Moselle, in the Meurthe-et-Moselle département
  • Beaumont, Puy-de-Dôme, in the Puy-de-Dôme département
  • Beaumont, Haute-Savoie, in the Haute-Savoie département
  • Beaumont, Vienne, in the Vienne département
  • Beaumont, Yonne, in the Yonne département
  • Beaumont-en-Auge, in the Calvados département
  • Beaumont-Hague, in the Manche département

Puy-de-Dôme is a département in the center of France named after the famous dormant volcano, the Puy-de-Dôme. ... Haute-Savoie is a French département, named after the Alps mountain range. ... This article is about the French département. ... Yonne is a French département named after the Yonne River. ... Beaumont en Auge is a commune of the Calvados département, in the Basse-Normandie France. ... For the apple brandy produced in the region, see Calvados (spirit). ... Manche is a French département in Normandy named after La Manche (the sleeve), which is the French name of the English Channel. ...

In New Zealand

Beaumont is a small town in inland Otago, in the South Island of New Zealand. ...

In the United Kingdom

Beaumont is a village and civil parish in the City of Carlisle district of Cumbria, England. ...

In the United States

Beaumont is a city located in Riverside County, California. ... Beaumont is a community in Butler County, Kansas. ... Flag of Beaumont, Texas Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County in U.S. state of Texas within the Beaumont—Port Arthur metropolitan area. ...

People

William Beaumont (November 21, 1785 - April 25, 1853) was a surgeon in the U.S. Army who became known as the Father of Gastric Physiology following his research on human digestion. ... Major Kenneth Beaumont CBE, DSO, MA (Oxon), AFRAeS (10th February 1884 - 24th June 1965). ...

Other

  • a make of automobile produced by General Motors of Canada. see Acadian (automobile)
  • Beaumont Hospital (Ireland), Dublin, Ireland
  • Beaumont Hospital (Michigan), southeastern lower Michigan, USA [1]

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Beaumont, Texas - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia (1412 words)
Beaumont is a city and county seat of Jefferson County in U.S. state of Texas within the Beaumont—Port Arthur metropolitan area.
Beaumont was a small center for cattle raisers and farmers in its early years, and, with an active riverport by the late 1800s, it became an important lumber and rice-milling town.
Beaumont's lumber boom, which reached its peak in the late 1800s, was due in large part to the rebuilding and expansion of the railroads after the Civil War.
Dr. William Beaumont's Life and Work (2325 words)
Beaumont and the other surgeons were amputating arms and legs for two straight days; they also trephined fractured skulls (this meant using a cylindrical saw to remove bone, attempting to relieve pressure on the brain).
Beaumont treated the wound, but he was repeatedly unsuccessful in fully closing the hole in St. Martin's stomach; for a while, the hole had to be covered to prevent food and drink from coming out.
Beaumont thought that the numerous wounds and sprains he saw were caused by alcohol abuse, as soldiers in those days were rationed an entire "gill" of whiskey a day (two gills a day if a soldier was on manual labor duty for 10 or more days).
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