The Doctor Who Swallowed the Truth
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate...
This is a contemporary on courage and conviction, drawing on John 8:32.
In June 1984, at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia, Dr. Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory holding a murky broth that would either vindicate him or make him dangerously ill. For two years, he and pathologist Robin Warren had argued that stomach ulcers were not caused by stress or spicy food, as the medical establishment insisted, but by a spiral-shaped bacterium called Helicobacter pylori.…
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