来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第9集 第9集》

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  And, so, from the 1830s onward,
  所以 从十九世纪三十年代开始
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  one of the therapeutic ideas was
  一个治疗方针就是
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  why not simply replace the fluids?
  干嘛不重新不足失去的体液呢
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  There were major attempts early on
  早期的时候 人们曾尝试
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  to get people to drink lots of liquid.
  通过引用大量液体来治疗
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  That doesn't work because you simply vomit it up.
  没什么用 因为喝进去的都吐掉了
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  It has no effect, except to make the patient weaker.
  除了让病人更虚弱以外没什么效果
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  So, having discovered that,
  发现了这个以后
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  there were attempts by physicians
  又有医师尝试过
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  to replace the fluids intravenously.
  通过静脉注射来补充体液
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  The problem early on was that
  初期的问题在于
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  there was not a knowledge there were several problems.
  没人知道其中的几个问题