来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病第10集第10集》

And very distressing, there would be a very severe cramping;

更痛苦的是病患会严重萎缩
terrible cramps, terrible abdominal pain, nausea, vomiting.

可怕的萎缩严重腹痛恶心呕吐
And the blood itself--physicians who were

而血液本身曾尝试过用
trying to treat patients by bloodletting rapidly noticed

快速放血的方法治疗的医生注意到
that the blood itself, deprived of its liquid content,

血液失去了其液状形态
was transformed into a black tar that refused to circulate.

而变为一种无法循环的黑色沥青状物质
This could lead to heart failure,

这种情况会导致心脏衰竭
to a terrible thirst that the patient suffered.

病患会感觉到严重口渴
And because the blood is no longer providing adequate oxygen,

由于血液不再提供足够的氧分
the patient suffers--has the sense of asphyxiating,

病人会产生窒息感
a terrible effort to gasping for air.

剧烈地喘气
Those are a couple of pictures of contemporary--

这是一些现代的照片