Pettenkofer didn't reject the idea of the Vibrio.

佩腾科弗没有否认弧菌这个想法
Instead, he incorporated it elegantly into his larger theory,

而是将弧菌巧妙的融合进了他的观点
explaining that it played a role in the etiology of cholera,

解释了它如何在霍乱的致病源中发挥作用
but that its role and its

但是弧菌的作用和传染机制
mechanism were completely different from the ones that koch espoused.

和科赫的观点完全不同
Pettenkofer's theory is often referred to as the groundwater theory.

佩腾科弗的观点被称作地下水理论
We've seen it can be called localism.

这是个具有位置特色的理论
It can be called the groundwater theory.

它可以被称作地下水理论
The simplest approach to his method

理解他的理论
is a very simple mathematical equation,

只需要一个非常简单的数学等式
that he was very fond of himself,

就能解释清楚
for illustrative purposes.

这是他很得意的地方