at the basis of the rebuilding of Naples.

他的理论是基于那不勒斯市的重建之上的
He developed the most sophisticated of miasmatic theories

他建立了十九世纪时期
in the nineteenth century and was aimed the aim then

最尖端的毒气理论并指出
behind the rebuilding of Naples was to thin out the population.

那不勒斯重建背后的目的是减少人口数量
Overcrowding was a cause of disease,

人口过多是疾病发生的一个原因
and poisonous vapors arising from underneath the city

而毒气源自于城市地下
poisoned the air, people breathed in the poison

有毒的气体人们吸入了有毒物质
and succumbed to cholera,

便会染上霍乱
in Max Pettenkofer's view.

这是马克斯·佩腾科弗的观点
The purpose of risanamento then was

而城市改造的目的
first of all to raise the level of the streets;

首先便是提高街道的水平线
that is to say, the danger and the miasma was,

也就是说疾病的威胁和臭气