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THE article published in NATURE of December 4, setting forth Dr. Koch's well-known theories with regard to the connection of a comma-shaped micro-organism with cholera, serves very efficiently as the text for one who desires to point out the deficiencies in Dr. Koch's observations and reasonings on this subject. The article is the most favourable statement which can be made on the side of those who accept Dr. Koch's conclusions, and is to a certain extent not quite fair to his opponents, since his original statements are not clearly separated from the subsequent statements which he has made in reply to criticisms.
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LANKESTER, E. Dr. Koch and the Comma-Bacterium. Nature 31, 168–171 (1884). https://doi.org/10.1038/031168c0
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