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Max von Pettenkofer

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German chemist and hygienist​·​1818–1901

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  1. October 7, 1892​·​The Man Who Drank Cholera
    #5783

    I drank a culture of the cholera germ and got nothing worse than diarrhea. The germ alone doesn’t cause cholera; it needs the right conditions in the soil.