Barry Marshall DRANK Bacteria to Prove Everyone Wrong

No one believed him, so he drank a glass of bacteria to prove the whole medical world wrong.

For decades doctors taught that stomach ulcers came from stress and spicy food.

Millions suffered, treated with antacids that soothed the pain but never cured the cause.

A young Australian doctor named Barry Marshall thought the real culprit was a bacterium.

He found the bug in patients' stomachs, but the experts laughed him off.

He could not infect animals to prove it, and journals rejected his work.

So in 1984 he did the unthinkable. He swallowed a cloudy broth full of the bacteria.

Days later he was sick with the illness he predicted, then cured it with antibiotics.

He had proved that a simple course of pills could cure ulcers for good.

The doctor everyone mocked won the Nobel Prize, and changed medicine by poisoning himself.

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