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ment of teeth (1839) and for a period worked as a dentist; he also wrote on 
embryology and zoology. 
His discovery of Sarcina ventriculi (1842) aroused much interest in the 
medical world; he founded the genus and species on material obtained from 
a case of pyrosis or “ waterbrash "’ lasting nearly two months in a youth of 19. 
He practically cured the case by altered diet, exercise, and creosote per os 
which checked the fermentation in the stomach. He wrote but few papers on 
helminthology (Distomum hepaticum, Gymnorhynchus horridus Goodsir (1841) 
and various Cestodes (1844)), and studied potato blight (1846). 
For Biography see (1868) The Anatomical Memoirs of John Goodsir , edited 
by W. Turner with a biographical memoir by H. Lonsdale, 2 vols, xxviii + 
524 pp., 14 pis., 24 figs., 8vo with portrait (herein reproduced), Edinburgh. 
The biography in Diet. National Biogr. xxn is taken from the foregoing. See 
also Balfour, J. H. (1866-7), Trans. Botan. Soc. Edin. ix. 118-127; (1867-8), 
Proc. Roy. Soc. xvi, pp. xiv-xvi; Edinburgh Med. Journ. 1867; Cleland, J. (1889). 
Memoirs, etc. London and Edinburgh, 8vo. p. 159 with portrait. 
His parasitological papers are as follows: History of a case in which a fluid 
periodically ejected from the stomach contained vegetable organisms [ Sarcina 
ventriculi ] of an undescribed form, with a chemical analysis of the fluid by 
George Wilson, Edin. Med. and Surg. Journ. lvii [republished 1868 in Memoirs , 
ii. 531-371, v. supra]. 
(1841). On Gymnorhynchus horridus, a new cestoid Entozoon, Edin. N. 
Phil. Journ. (61), v. 31, July, pp. 9-12, pi. 1, figs. 4-8. This translated in 
N. Notiz. a. d. Geb. d. Nat. u. Heilk. Weimar, xx. 
(1844). “Of the anatomy and development of the Cystic Entozoa,” a 
paper read at the York Meeting of Brit. Assoc, and reprinted (1868) in Memoirs 
(v. supra), pp. 4/6-503 with pis.; this paper is of historical interest since it 
refers to his meeting with Johannes Muller, Kolliker, etc. His papers on general 
medical subjects are listed in Index Catal. Libr. Surg.-Gen. Washington, 
2nd s. vi. 365, and his botanical work is referred to by Balfour (1866-7, 
v. supra). 
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