This is a sceptical age, but although our faith in many of the things in which our forefathers fervently believed has weakened, our confidence in the curative properties of the bottle of medicine remains the same as theirs.
这是一个怀疑一切的时代，可是虽然我们对我们祖先笃信的许多事物已不太相信，我们对瓶装药品疗效的信心仍与祖辈一样坚定。

This modern faith in medicines is proved by the fact that the annual drug bill of the Health Services is mounting to astronomical figures and shows no signs of ceasing to rise.
卫生部门的年度药费上升到天文数字，并且目前尚无停止上升的迹象，这个事实证明了现代人对药物的依赖。

大多数医生都超负荷工作，所以没有多少时间提出既费时而有不受欢迎的忠告，如注意饮食、生活有规律、需要克服坏习惯等since most men in the Health Services are overworked and have little time for offering time-consuming and little-appreciated advice on such subjects as diet,right living, and the need for abandoning bad habits

结果就是把药瓶、盒药、罐药开给看病的人而万事大吉。the bottle, the box, the jar are almost always granted them.

Nor is it the ignorant and I'll-educated person who has such faith in the bottle of medicine.并不只是无知的、没受过良好教育的人才迷信药瓶。

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It is recounted of sb.据说，某人有过这么一件事

surely be of equal benefits

He was comforted by the thought of the help he was bringing to his friend, he hastened to his house.想到能对朋友有所帮助，他感到欣慰，于是急急忙忙来到他家。

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History does not relate whether his friend accepted his medical help, but in all possibility he did.他的朋友是否接受了他的药物治疗，历史没有记载，但很可能是接受了。

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