The symptoms are important to examine

其症状使我们检测
as an integral part of this disease.

这种疾病不可或缺的部分
And more generally, unless we appreciate the

更概括的来说如果我们不充分认识
distinctive symptoms of each of the diseases we examine,

我们所检验的每种疾病的独特症状
there's a distorting temptation to allow them to run together,

就会诱使我们将它们混淆在一起
the diseases, as so many interchangeable cause of death;

疾病如此其它类似的原因亦然
A point of view that prevents

有一种观点
us from understanding that each of these epidemic diseases had a

一直阻碍着我们对这些流行病的每个个例
distinctive and different imprint.

的特点与持久影响进行深入理解
Smallpox was the disease that it was, in part because of the

天花曾经就是其中一种部分原因在于
dread that it generated; fear not only of death,

它造成的恐慌不仅是对死亡的恐惧
but also of exquisite suffering, maiming,

更包含疾病的折磨对身体的残害