When Conviction Enters the Bloodstream
In June 1984, Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and raised a petri dish to his lips. The...
This is a contemporary on courage and conviction, drawing on 2 Timothy 1:7.
In June 1984, Barry Marshall stood in his laboratory at Royal Perth Hospital in Western Australia and raised a petri dish to his lips. The young gastroenterologist drank a broth teeming with Helicobacter pylori bacteria — deliberately infecting himself to prove what the medical establishment refused to believe. For years, Marshall and his colleague Robin Warren had argued that stomach ulcers were caused not by stress or spicy food but by bacterial infection.…
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