When I was a kid, some of the grownups I knew had stomach ulcers. This was considered a chronic condition caused by stress. One of the few remedies was to go o

When I was a kid, some of the grownups I knew had stomach ulcers. This was considered a chronic condition caused by stress. One of the few remedies was to go on a "bland diet" to avoid irritation. Nothing spicy for you! Ulcers also led to stomach cancer. In 1984, Robin Warren and Barry Marshall had a theory that ulcers were actually caused by a bacterium called Helicobacter Pylori. And they thought they might be cured by antibiotics. So Marshall drank a glass of broth full of those bacteria from an ulcer patient. He got ulcers. Bad ones. The two doctors worked out a course of antibiotics and cured Marshall's ulcers. They won a Nobel Prize for it. For any of you younger folks who have never heard of stomach ulcers or stomach cancer, now you know why. https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank-infectious-broth-gave-himself-an-ulcer-and-solved-a-medical-mystery https://www.discovermagazine.com/health/the-doctor-who-drank... https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/when-scientists-experiment-on-themselves-h-pylori-and-ulcers/ https://blogs.scientificamerican.com/guest-blog/when-scienti...