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Not an operation but: Barry Marshall drank the bacteria Helicobacter pylori to prove it's involvement in gastritis and ulcers. Before that everybody assumed b
by fn1 6y ago
Not an operation but:
Barry Marshall drank the bacteria Helicobacter pylori to prove it's involvement in gastritis and ulcers.
Before that everybody assumed bacteria wouldn't survive stomach acid and these sicknesses were causes by stress.
He treated with antibiotics afterwards and got the nobel-price.
- fiftyacorn 6y agoWas the Nobel prize for the discovery of helicobacter in the stomach lining, which had essentially been rediscovered as he found it in some old analysis