Australian - Scientist | September 30, 1951 -
My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor on your chest if you had a cough and did funny things to you if you had tuberculosis - all these things that really made very little difference once proper treatments were brought in.
Barry Marshall
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Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause.
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I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer.
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If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million years. When they began to migrate, there would have been different animals and plants - and potentially a lot of allergy issues.
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The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response actually make ulcers more likely. That's why businessmen eating giant T-bone steaks were prone to ulcers.
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The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas.
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If you say you are the Safe Food Foundation, that means you're implying that your food is safer or that every other bit of food that we're eating is not safe. If they were a really honest foundation, they would call themselves the anti-GM foundation.
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