The Bacteria Hypothesis

The bacteria hypothesis seemed to fit with so much of what was known about ulcers, but this concept met with a ton of resistance among doctors. Barry Marshall took it upon himself to take a swig of the bacterial culture from a 66 year old non-ulcer dyspeptic man after first establishing Marshall had no gastric ulceration or inflammation. In less than two weeks, all of those symptoms appeared and the final confirmation came in the form of an antascope. The infection seemed to more or less resolve on its own for Marshall, but the putrid breath that's characteristic of this disease remained. So his wife was like, if you don't take antibiotics to get rid of