For decades, medical consensus was absolute: stress and spicy food cause ulcers. The stomach is too acidic for anything to live in it. Barry Marshall, a young Australian doctor, disagreed. He found a strange bacteria (H. pylori) in ulcer patients. The medical establishment laughed at him. He was ridiculed at conferences and ignored by journals.Frustrated and desperate, Marshall did the unthinkable: he took a beaker of the bacteria from a sick patient's gut and drank it. Within days, he began to vomit and developed the very disease he was studying. This book tells the incredible story of how...