来自《耶鲁大学开放课程：1600年后西方社会的流行病 第15集 第15集》
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which was that physicians who had studied general medicine,那些在欧洲的医学院校 -
in European medical schools,研究过全科医学的医生 -
were fully equipped to treat the entire spectrum已经全副武装 能够从容应对 -
of human diseases wherever they occurred.遇到的一切人类疾病 -
Diseases of the tropics weren't a special category.热带疾病并不属于特殊范畴 -
They were simply heightened versions of familiar maladies.它们只是我们所熟悉的一些疾病的增强版 -
In other words, the concept of diseases of the tropics换句话说 热带疾病这一观念只是 -
presupposed a universality of a single medical discipline建于一个单纯的医学学科 -
that viewed the diseases of the tropical world而这个学科只是将这个热带疾病的 -
as posing problems of degree,毒害程度提升了点 -
but not of a thoroughly different kind.但绝非一种全新的疾病 -
We should also say that this idea of diseases of the tropics我们也可以说 这种对于热带疾病的看法