I suffered from terrible gastritis, and I pretended to our two young daughters that I still had that job.
除要忍受严重的胃炎,我还要对两个年幼的女儿假装自己仍然在做那份工作。
People weren't actually being poisoned, but it's not hard to see why it looked like they were: salicylic acid worked for fever, pain, and inflammation, but it also often caused gastritis, where the stomach lining becomes inflamed.
人们实际并没有被毒死,但不难看出为什么他们看起来像被毒死:水杨酸对发烧、疼痛和炎症有效,但它也经常导致胃炎,胃壁发炎。