《2018-2019学年高中英语 unit 1 great scientists课件 新人教版必修5》由会员分享,可在线阅读,更多相关《2018-2019学年高中英语 unit 1 great scientists课件 新人教版必修5(6页珍藏版)》请在金锄头文库上搜索。
1、,Unit 1,Great scientists,单元话题阅读,Snow planned to become a physician,and at fourteen,he was apprenticed (使当学徒) to Dr.William Hardcastle in NewcastleuponTyne.During his early years as an apprentice,he filled notebooks with his thoughts and observations on scientific subjects.,During the London cholera
2、epidemic (流行霍乱) of 18311832,he became a student at the School of Medicine in Great Windmill Street,London.After two years of schooling,he was accepted as a member of the Royal College of Surgeons of England.Snow was a believer in the germ theory of cholera.In 1849 Snow wrote a book “On the Mode of C
3、ommunication of Cholera,” in which he suggested that the “cholera poison” was spread (传播) through the pollution of food or water.This theory should be against the more commonly accepted idea that cholera,like all diseases,multiplied in the air,and a cloud of dangerous gas floated around until it fou
4、nd its victims.,On April 7,1853,he used chloroform (三氯甲烷,医用麻醉剂) to Queen Victoria at the birth of her eighth child,Prince Leopold.And it wasnt until 1854,when cholera struck England once again,that Snows argument that cholera was spread through polluted food or water was recognized. For his efforts to determine how cholera was spread,John Snow is widely considered to be the father of modern epidemiology.,谢谢观看!,