Placebos have doubtless been used for centuries by wise physicians as well as by quacks,
but it is only recently that recognition of an enquiring kind has been given the clinical
circumstance where the use of this tool is essential"... to distinguish pharmacological effects
from the effects of suggestion, and... to obtain an unbiased assessment of the result of
experiment." It is interesting that Pepper could say as recently as 10 years ago" apparently
there has never been a paper published discussing [primarily] the important subject of the …