高中英语选修7 Unit2 Fit for life-Reading课件（译林牛津版）.pptVIP

Aspirin has saved many people’s lives by reducing fever and helping stop p____. Lawrence Craven introduced the idea that aspirin could reduce the r____ of heart attacks by thinning blood. In 1971, Smith and Willis p____ that aspirin was a blood-thinning medicine and a study showed that a chemical in aspirin could prevent a s____. In 2003, a Chinese doctor found that this chemical could reduce blood s____ levels and help people with diabetes. Penicillin, discovered by Alexander Fleming in 1928, is c________ to be one of the most important medicines in contemporary s_____. Howard