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One of the founders of modern hygiene became so convinced that cholera required the right combination of microbe, environment, and host conditions that he swallowed the organism himself to demonstrate that the bacterium alone wasn't sufficient.
Neglected bacterial cultures become an unexpected breeding ground for one of medicine’s most important discoveries. Click through for the accidental discovery that changed modern medicine.