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I also found some new attempts to explore contagion. The doctor who became famous for drinking contaminated crop to prove his medical theory is Dr. Barry Marshall. However, he did this to prove that stomach ulcers are caused by the bacterium Helicobacter pylori and not diphtheria. In 1984, he deliberately drank a glass of bacteria, developed severe gastritis, and then successfully treated himself with antibiotics - a breakthrough for which he received the Nobel Prize in Medicine in 2005. A doctor named Dr. Rudermond caused quite a stir when he smeared smallpox pus on his face and hands, then exposed at least three dozen innocent people to the pus. He was arrested but eventually released because the police did not find sufficient grounds to charge him. He did not hurt or infect anyone, and did not intend to do so. He knew from experience that no one would get sick. He tried to prove that the contagion of smallpox was a figment of the imagination of people with weak minds. Neither Dr. Rudermond nor any of the approximately 37 people he directly exposed to the virus contracted smallpox. Florence Nightingale wrote: "Facts are everything, doctrines are nothing. Look at the damage the German pathologists have caused us. There are no specific diseases. There are specific situations that are caused by diseases." She concluded that the "doctrine of contagion" is "a great thing for weak-minded people." The German doctor Max von Pattenkopfer is the most famous doctor who drank water containing cholera on purpose. In 1892, to disprove his opponent Robert Koch's theory about the spread of the disease, Patenkoper drank a glass of water containing a fresh culture of the bacterium Vibrio cholerae. He survived with only severe diarrhea.