来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第14集 第14集》
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establishing the germ theory of disease,三大著名人物中的第三位 -
and that's Joseph Lister,约瑟夫·李斯特 -
who lived from 1827 to 1912,他生于1827年 卒于1912年 -
and made his major contributions in Scotland.在苏格兰做出了他的主要贡献 -
He was professor of surgery at Edinburgh University,当时他在爱丁堡大学任外科学教授 -
where he was appalled by the numbers of patients who许多手术操作成功但患者死于术中感染 -
died after otherwise successful operations.这使他感到非常震惊 -
You know the old joke about the operation being successful,你们都知道有个有关成功手术的古老笑话 -
just too bad the patient died."遗憾的是 病人死了" -
Well, Pasteur's idea immediately struck him巴斯德的理论马上让他认识到了 -
for its lifesaving, practical implications.其救死扶伤的实用价值 -
That is, he made practical use of Pasteur's discovery他将巴斯德关于空气传播细菌的理论