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次の英文の下線部（1）、（2）を和訳せよ。（1）については，itが何を指すか明らかになるように訳すこと。
Indeed, in the year 1000 there was no concept of an antiseptic at all. If a piece of food fell off your plate, the advice of one contemporary document was to pick it up, make the sign of the cross over it, salt it well-and then eat it. The sign of the cross was, so to speak, the antiseptic of the year 1000. The person who dropped his food on the floor knew that he was taking some sort of risk when he picked it up and put it in his mouth, but he trusted in his faith. Today we have faith in modern medicine, though (1)few of us can claim much personal knowledge of how it actually works. (2)We also know that the ability to combat quite major illnesses can be affected by what we call " a positive state of mind " --- what the Middle Ages experienced as " faith ".
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