using aspirin, an over-the-counter pill on sale in every supermarket without a prescription, to treat serious circulatory disease may seem almost like quackery.

• 阿司匹林是一种不需处方,在每家超市柜台都有出售的药丸,用其治疗严重的循环系统疾病,收到的奇效如同江湖医术。