The Munich Hygienist Who Drank a Cholera Flask in 1892 to Prove Koch Was Wrong
Max von Pettenkofer was the most prominent 19th-century German opponent of the germ theory of cholera. In 1892 he drank a flask of *Vibrio cholerae* sent to him by Robert Koch's institute. He did not die. He shot himself nine years later.
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