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Argument51The following appeared in a medical newsletter.
"Doctors have long suspected that secondary infections may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. This hypothesis has now been proved by preliminary results of a study of two groups of patients. The first group of patients, all being treated for muscle injuries by Dr. Newland, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine, took antibiotics regularly throughout their treatment. Their recuperation time was, on average, 40 percent quicker than typically expected. Patients in the second group, all being treated by Dr. Alton, a general physician, were given sugar pills, although the patients believed they were taking antibiotics. Their average recuperation time was not significantly reduced. Therefore, all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment."
医生长期以来怀疑严重肌肉扭伤后的二次感染妨碍了一些患者迅速康复。这一假说现在被一项对两组患者的研究的初步结果所证实。第一组患者全部由专攻运动医学的Dr. Newland治疗肌肉损伤，他们在疗程中经常服用抗生素。他们的康复期平均比通常预期的快40％。第二组患者由综合医师Dr. Alton治疗，他们被给予糖丸，而患者相信他们在服用抗生素。他们的平均康复时间没有明显缩短。因此，任何被确诊为肌肉损伤的患者应被建议服用抗生素作为辅助治疗。
     

提纲：
1、二次感染和研究小组之间的因果关系不明确
2、结论和小组的研究不具有说服力。因为基于受伤的程度和医生的领域

In this analysis, the author claims that all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment. To substantiated the conclusion, the arguer cites the results of a study of two groups of patients treated by different doctors with different measures:one is antibiotics and another is sugar pills. In addition, the arguer assumes that secondary infections which may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain have been proved by preliminary results of this study. This argument is unconvincing for several critical flaws.
First of all, the argument concludes based on a possible known correlation between the study and the influence of secondary infection on severe muscle strain that the study now has proved that the latter keeps some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. Yet, the correlation alone amounts to scant evidence of the claimed cause-and-effect relationship. In the study of two groups of patients, neither of them are mentioned that it is by secondary infection that keep them from healing quickly after severe muscle strain. On the contrary, in the study, what is mentioned is the method that can accelerate their recuperation. Lacking the information that the correlation between secondary infection and the recuperation in the study, the author can not convince me tht secondary infections which may keep some patients from healing quickly after severe muscle strain.
As for the study about the correlation between cureness and the measure,which is contributable to the conclusion that all patients who are diagnosed with muscle strain would be well advised to take antibiotics as part of their treatment, the arguer fails to consider several other relevant factors that may influence the results of the study. First, the study does not take the degree of the injures into consideration. It is probably the injuries of first group treated by Dr. Newland are minor compared to the second one. Sencond, the study overlooks the importance of the doctors. Generally speaking, a doctor who specializes in sports medicine is better than a general physician in other treatments except antibiotics, such as massage occasionally on the muscles and the guidance about certain exercises,which aslo play an vital role in the recuperation. So, it is hard to conclude that it is the antibiotics that cure the injures.
As it stands, the argument si not well reasoned. To make it logically acceptable, the arguer would have to give us more clear evidence to rule out other possilble causes of the first group’s high recuperation. And it also have to provide more information about the cause-and-effect relationship between secondary infection and the study.

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