Taking Metronidazole Can Kill You

Barry marshall is the latest in a long tradition of doctors experimenting on themselves. John hunter was an eighteenth century english surgeon, royal doctor to king george the third. Like barry marshall, he downed a potion teeming with bacteria, in this case, the bacteria that caused cholera. But von pettenkoffer was lucky. He just got a mild case of diarrhoea. In the 19 twenties, verner forsman learned from his physiology text book about an experiment someone had done on a horse. If you could insert a tube into a vein in a patient's arm and push it into the heart, that might have some medical uses forseman went