Medicine has a long and illustrious history of self-experimentation. Barry Marshall (lives in Perth, my dad worked in the same lab!) won a Nobel prize for provi

Medicine has a long and illustrious history of self-experimentation. Barry Marshall (lives in Perth, my dad worked in the same lab!) won a Nobel prize for proving peptic ulcers are caused by bacteria (not stress etc) and can be cured with antibiotics. As part of his research he drank a culture containing bacteria from a patient's ulcer (yuk!), became horribly infected and cured himself with antibiotics. Sometimes self-experimentation turned out to be fatal (see Carrion's disease for example). Like the article says, I am very grateful to the guy for putting his own body on the line... and I hope he too wins a Nobel prize!