具有古典医学思想的现代流行病学家： 威廉·巴德

The modern epidemiologist with classical medical ideas: William Budd

威廉·巴德(William Budd,1811-1880)是19世纪英国著名的流行病学家之一,撰写了很多关于传染病防治的文章。他的主要贡献是阐明了部分流行病具有传染性,如伤寒、霍乱、牛瘟、猩红热、肺结核等,并提出了这些流行病的传播途径以及预防策略,尤其是伤寒和霍乱。这些贡献使他成为流行病学的先驱人物之一,为现代流行病学的微生物理论的发展奠定了基础。

William Budd （1811-1880） was one of the most famous British epidemiologists in the 19th century and wrote many articles on the prevention and control of infectious diseases. His main contributions are to clarify that some epidemics are contagious, such as typhoid, cholera, burdock, scarlet fever, tuberculosis, etc. and put forward the way fur spreading and prevention strategies of these epidemics, especially typhoid fever and cholera. Those works have made him one of the pioneers of epidemiology and laid the foundation for the development of modern epidemiological microbiological theory.