rather than of the medical elite.

而不是医学精英的主流思想
Whereas anticontagionism dominated the international medical profession.

反传染论被大部分全球医学权威认可
Most men of science regarded contagionism

大部分科学家认为
as a view held by the ignorant and the superstitious,

支持传染论的人无知又迷信
and indeed the irony is that contagionism reached a nadir,

讽刺的是在值得尊敬的科赫和巴斯德
in respectability, just before the work of Koch and Pasteur

用事实证实了传染论的极端生命力之前
demonstrated its ultimate vitality.

传染论确实到达了低谷
Take... To understand that, take an example that

为了理解这一点我们举一个例子
by now you know extremely well, and that is plague.

是你们都非常熟悉的疾病鼠疫
To the layman, the spread of plague

对外行来说鼠疫的传播
seemed to justify the idea that by some means,

似乎证明了传染论的正确
that people still didn't understand,

尽管人们并不能理解