the beginning of the foundation of a scientific medicine.

是科学医学基础的开端
So, therapeutics then got rid,

因此治疗学
in a naturalistic view,

以我们现代的自然观点来看
of chance, potions, spells and sacrifices;

它摆脱了机遇魔药咒语献祭
and exorcism, appeasement of the gods.

驱魔和平息上帝的怒气等观点
The importance of this momentous step in human consciousness

这个人类意识上重大的突破
was expressed by a Yale professor of epidemiology in the 1940s,

在40年代被一位耶鲁流行病学的教授
Charles-Edward Winslow,

查尔斯·爱德华·温斯洛
who wrote--and let me quote a sentence or two from him.

描述到让我在这里引用他的原话
"If disease is postulated as caused by gods,

"如果假定疾病是由于上帝
daemons or demons,

恶魔或者魔族引起的
scientific progress is impossible.

那么科学进步就不可能发生