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Treatment that shouldn't have an effect
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placebo
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
early 13c., name given to the rite of Vespers of the Office of the Dead, so called from the opening of the first antiphon, "I will please the Lord in the land of the living" (Psalm cxiv:9), from Latin placebo "I shall please," future indicative of placere ...
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Word definitions in Wikipedia
An obsolete usage of the word placebo was to mean someone who came to a funeral, claiming (often falsely) a connection with the deceased to try to get a share of any food and/or drink being handed out. This usage originated from the phrase "placebo Domino ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Placebo \Pla*ce"bo\, n. [L., I shall please, fut. of placere to please.] (R. C. Ch.) The first antiphon of the vespers for the dead. (Med.) A prescription with no pharmacological activity given to a patient to humor or satisfy the desire for medical treatment. ...
Usage examples of placebo.
But all the recent data shows that ginkgo offers no better protection from the effects of aging than a placebo.
Psalter, in the same character, a Placebo and a Dirige, with a Hymnal and Collectary, for 4 s.
As thou hast heard, assented here right now To my purpose: Placebo, what say ye?
Drug companies routinely compare the effectiveness of their drugs against placebos given to patients with the same disease who had no way to tell the difference between the drug and the placebo.
Even the name of this effect seems to be influenced by scientific materialism, for a placebo, by definition, is a harmless, unmedicated preparation given as a medicine to patients either to humor them or trick them into believing they are taking actual medication.
But the fact that the placebo effect worked on the girl's mind rather than her body did not make it any less real, or less useful.
And, whether it was some kind of placebo effect, spontaneous healing or remission, or something completely outside Jos's medical experience, the fact was that a Silent's presence at or near a patient's side seemed to speed recuperation.
To what degree belief can make a thing real we do not know, but the so-called placebo effect makes a case for it.
The placebo effect of this reputation had indeed preserved many a sadly shattered sailor, and he was much caressed aboard.
It is the only scientific design that defeats the illogical susceptibility of intelligent beings to placebo effects and terminal self-delusion.
The Humans had discovered such chemicals at the root of placebo effects and called them endorphins.
Their exchanges were littered with talk of tax avoidance, of selling between subsidiaries to inflate prices artificially, of packaging placebos as panaceas.