Read Physician heal thyself then complete the following questions.
1. How was stomach ulcers treated in ancient Egypt?
(A) By giving the poison called hemlock
(B) By using plant extracts
(C) By starvation
2. What did we think stomach ulcers were caused by in the last century?
(A) bacteria
(B) diet and lifestyle
3. Why did Dr Warren think that stomach ulcers might have been caused by bacteria in 1970?
(A) he realised that ulcers could be cured by antibiotics
(B) he saw lots of bacteria when he looked at tissue from an ulcer
(C) he noticed that people who had surgery to remove ulcers still got ulcers
4. Dr Warren and Dr Marshall discovered that stomach ulcers could be treated using
(A) surgery
(B) hemlock
(C) starvation
(D) antibiotics
5. Why did Dr Marshall swallow a solution of H. pylori?
(A) He was very stressed.
(B) He wanted to convince others of his hypothesis.
(C) He wanted to experience the symptoms of the disease.
(D) He didn’t think the bacteria would survive in the stomach.
6. Why did the medical community find it hard to believe that bacteria caused stomach
ulcers?
(A) The bacteria were too small.
(B) They had a range of cures for stomach ulcers already.
(C) They believed that bacteria would be killed by stomach acid.
7. In the sixth paragraph of the text, scientists called the work of Dr Warren and Dr Marshall
“preposterous”. What does “preposterous” mean?
(A) false
(B) miraculous
(C) ridiculous
8. How did this new theory (that bacteria cause stomach ulcers) gain acceptance in the
medical community?
(A) Earlier treatments became unfashionable.
(B) Dr Marshall and Dr Warren won the Nobel Prize.
(C) Doctors used surgery and antacids rather than hemlock.
(D) Other researchers did experiments and confirmed the results.