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Jul 2018
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The Doctor Who Drank Bacteria

Vice
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For more than a century, doctors believed they understood the cause of stomach ulcers: stress. But in the 1980s, one Australian doctor dared to challenge that concept, and put he his own stomach on the line to prove it. 

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