My mother was a nurse, and in her era, most diseases weren't understood; people put mustard plasters on knees and rubbed camphor… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
The 20th-century ulcer epidemic was a sign of good health in American people - good diet, strong acidity and healthy immune response… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Everything that's supposedly caused by stress, I tell people there's a Nobel Prize there if you find out the real cause. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
In high school I had B's and C's, not too many A's, but I must have done well on that medical school test, and… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I was hoping I was going to get an ulcer. I was hoping to boost my research career by developing a bleeding ulcer. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
Dad always explained the car engine when he repaired it, and he had many technical books, so I was making electromagnets by age eight… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
In medical school, it's quite possible to get taught that you can diagnose everybody and treat everything. But then you get out in the… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
I was born in 1951 in Kalgoorlie, a prosperous mining town 370 miles east of Perth, Western Australia. Kalgoorlie was a gold rush town… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
It was so frustrating to see ulcer patients having surgery, or even dying, when I knew a simple antibiotic treatment could fix the problem. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
To gastroenterologists, the concept of a germ causing ulcers was like saying that the Earth is flat. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
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… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
The politics have always been difficult in medicine. There is some truth in the way medical practice is portrayed in TV dramas. — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
You can always find stress in someone's life if you want to. You ask a few questions, and eventually, it's, 'Yes, I admit, I… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
