'All for research': Australian Nobel winner was a human guinea pig

Here is that post for the Nobel Prize winner. Unfortunately, this site is not as reliable a source as msn.com or others, but it still shows what happened. This man proved that he was without ulcers before swallowing a culture of bacteria. After doing so, he came down with nausea, vomiting, and stomach pains. The main idea was that this bacteria is responsible for ulcers and not stress. He used an antibiotic to cure what came about.

The interesting part to note about his method is that he swallowed his culture. This is not recommended in any form by any professors-at least ones that I know of. So swallowing his culture means that he must have really believed in his theory in order to prove it. Otherwise, he could have been in a great deal of danger. Here is his quote, ''Somebody had to do it, somebody had to swallow those bacteria and develop the disease,'' Marshall told the Australian Broadcasting Corp.

I find his persistence more appealing than the finding.

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