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Indeed, another aspect of his theory--that Robert Koch
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discovered the Vibrio cholerae.
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You've seen a picture of the Vibrio.
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And he discovered it in 1883.
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Pettenkofer didn't reject the idea of the Vibrio.
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Instead, he incorporated it elegantly into his larger theory,
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explaining that it played a role in the etiology of cholera,
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but that its role and its
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mechanism were completely different from the ones that koch espoused.
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Pettenkofer's theory is often referred to as the groundwater theory.
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We've seen it can be called localism.
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It can be called the groundwater theory.