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Peptic ulcers

For a long time, the leading medical and popular view was that stress or spicy foods caused ulcers. But in the early nineteen eighties, Australian researcher Dr. Barry Marshal proved that peptic ulcers, the most common kind, are instead caused by bacteria called Helicobacter pylori, or H. pylori.

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