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每一位认真、负责的医生只用他信得过的方法和药物治疗他的病人。然而,不同的医生治疗同一个病时常用不同的方法。假如病好了,不言而喻,医生把这个成就归功于他的治疗方法。这样的判断是多么的主观和不可靠。很多的药物和治疗方法曾经炫赫一时并为热心提倡者所赞扬,最后终于漠漠无闻了。有时需要很长时间才能确定某一治疗方法的真正作用。放血和大泻两种治疗方法经过几个世纪才被废弃。金元素的盐类作为结核病的“特效药”应用了约20年之久,著
Every serious and responsible doctor treats his patients only with methods and drugs he believes in. However, different doctors often use different methods to treat the same disease. If the disease is good, it goes without saying that the doctor attributed this achievement to his treatment. How subjective and unreliable this judgment is. Many drugs and therapies have been dazzling and praised by enthusiastic advocates, and finally they are indifferent. It sometimes takes a long time to determine the true role of a treatment. Both bloodletting and diarrhea treatments were abandoned after centuries. Salts of gold elements have been applied as “specific drugs” for tuberculosis for about 20 years.