《医学院校研究生英语读与写（第四版）》 课件 Unit 2 Text B Sir William Osler (18491919) His Opinion of Modern Therapeutics.pptx

医学院校研究生英语读与写(第四版）;English for Master Students in Medical Universities;Unit Two ;Outline ;Background information;Background information;Background information;Background information;Global analysis of the text;1) Sir William Osler (1849-1919), …, was arguably the most influential physician during the latter decades of the Victorian era and early decades of the 20th century. (Paragraph 1);2) He is best remembered for his magnum opus, …, which carry his eponym. (Paragraph 1);3) Osler was a prolific writer publishing approximately 1500 papers not only on various aspects of clinical medicine and pathology, but also on biology. (Paragraph 1);4) We considered it of interest to examine Osler’s views on therapeutics in his day and to speculate on what they might have been today. (Paragraph 2);5) The absence of efficacious medications led Osler to turn to the vis mediatrix naturae of older therapies consisting of “diet, exercise, baths and frictions”. (Paragraph 5);6) He would be concerned that technical advances may make doctors mere technicians as currently happening in clinical cardiology where the stethoscope is now obsolescent. (Paragraph 7);7) Osler would have approved the effort to obtain the best evidence for the efficacy of both medical and surgical treatments by randomised controlled trials… (Paragraph 8);8）Osler would have wondered if the project suffered from a surfeit of facts, to the detriment of ideas… (Paragraph 9);9) The latter must certainly have been reinforced by the prescient landmark text of Sir Archibald Edward Garrod (1858-1936) … (Paragraph 11);Text structure analysis;Text structure analysis;Text structure analysis;The text mainly tells readers Osler’s views on therapeutics in his day and to speculate on what they might have been today. It explores his view on the pharmaceutical industry. Clinical therapeutic trials and evidence-based medicine indicates Osler would have approved the effort to obtain the best evidence for the efficacy of both m