People resorted to drilling holes in peoples heads, bloodletting and leeching, arsenic, incantations, and a host of balms and salves that could work… but could also ultimately kill a person faster than the pathogens would.
人们求助于在人的头部钻洞、放血和吸血、砒霜、咒语,以及一系列可能有效的药膏… … 但最终这也可能比病原体更快地杀死一个人。