there were some losses as well, that went with it.

它也附带着一些损失
The germ theory of disease is one of the greatest advances

病菌学是科学史上
in the history of science.

最伟大的进步之一
But we need to argue that although true,

我们要讨论的是尽管它是正确的
it perhaps wasn't the entirely of truth,

但可能并不是全部正确的
and that its establishment as a reigning orthodoxy,

到十九世纪末
by the end of the nineteenth century--

它被确立为正统观点
because it does, in fact,

事实上
come to be held by the entirety of the international medical community

在1890年左右
really after around the 1890s or so.

它被全球医学团体认可
And that brought with it one of its consequences--

这个事实引发的后果...
an unintended one--

尽管不是蓄意的...