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Alexander Fleming.A Scottish army doctor, commended for bravery.
亞歷山大·弗萊明 一位蘇格蘭軍醫 因驍勇而被表彰
Neither surgeon nor medic, but a new kind of doctor:A bacteriologist.
他既非外科醫生也非救護人員 而是新型醫者 一名細菌學家
On a quest to treat not the symptoms of a disease,but its root cause.
他并不是去探求疾病的癥狀 而是究其根源
It was through his absolutely obsessive need to understand
他醉心于實驗室里的研究
what was happening in his laboratory,
渴望探索與發現
that he wandered into the greatest advance ever,among human scientists.
人類科學史上最偉大的發明
Fleming sees thousands die needlessly not from bullets and shrapnel,
弗萊明親眼見到無數無辜人死去 并非死于子彈和榴彈
but from wounds infected by bacteria.
而是因感染細菌而亡
100 trillion bacteria inhabit the human body,
一百兆個細菌寄生在人體內
ten times the number of human cells.
是人類細胞的十倍之多
Micro organisms that feed on living tissue.
微生物寄宿于活體組織之上
Most are harmless,but a few species release toxins
多數是無害的 不過有些細菌會釋放毒素
that cripple the immune system and spread disease.
削弱人體免疫系統 從而傳播疾病
Bacteria have killed more people than all the wars in history combined.
因細菌感染而死的人要比歷史上 所有因戰爭而亡的人數還要多
