Max von Pettenkofer

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Chronicled events

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.