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taking core samples of soil and rock,
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and correlating that with measurements of the rise and
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fall of groundwater levels, and correlating all of that
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information with rainfall, temperature measurements,
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and the history of cholera outbreaks.
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And Pettenkofer was tireless in propagating his ideas
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as a lecturer, as a writer.
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He was an advisor to the Bavarian government,
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and he became president of the Bavarian Academy of Science.
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Another factor was that Pettenkofer was quite interested
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in something else as well: what made people susceptible?
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And he believed that poor nutrition