Crossword-Solution: PLACEBOS
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| Certain test controls | 1 answer |
| Common cures? | 1 answer |
| Control group treatments, perhaps | 1 answer |
| Control pills | 1 answer |
| Controls, of a sort | 1 answer |
| Fake medication | 1 answer |
| Inert medications | 1 answer |
| Make-believe medications | 1 answer |
| Nonmedicinal pills used in clinical trials | 1 answer |
| Soothing remarks. | 1 answer |
| Sops | 1 answer |
| Study pills | 1 answer |
| Sugar pills | 1 answer |
| Sugar pills, e.g. | 1 answer |
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Hint 1 meaning
An inflammatory disease of the skin, characterized by the
presence of redness and itching, an eruption of small vesicles, and the
discharge of a watery exudation, which often dries up, leaving the skin
covered with crusts; -- called also tetter, milk crust, and salt rheum.
Hint 2 anagram
ZCAEME
Hint 3 another clue
eruption
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Sentences with PLACEBOS (5)
Born probably in Shropshire, where he had been put to school and received minor orders as a clerk, "Long Will," as Langland was nicknamed from his tall stature, found his way at an early age to London, and earned a miserable livelihood there by singing "placebos" and "diriges" in the stately funerals of his day.
Snakes' heads, toads' toes, lizards' tails, and beetles' wings have a small place in the pharmacopoeia of to-day, except as placebos, and it is extremely doubtful if they were ever valuable for any other purpose.
Alexander of Tralles recommended a number of amulets, some of which I will mention later, but admits that he had no faith in them, but merely ordered them as placebos for rich and fastidious patients who could not be persuaded to adopt a more rational treatment.
Many a physician who has used bread pills or other placebos to replace a drug that he did not want the patient to acquire a habit for, has thus been able to allow good effects to go on without interruption, where the stoppage of medicine had previously interfered with the continuance of the good habit that had been formed.
CHAPTER IV--TURBID THERAPEUTICS 51 An Astounding Array of Therapeutic Systems--Diet--Water--Optics--Hemotherapy--Consumption Cures--Placebos--Inconsistencies and Contradictions-- Osler's Opinion of Appendicitis--Fair Statement of Limitations in Medicine Desirable.
Quotes with PLACEBOS (3)
Physicians do not systematically prescribe placebos to their patients. Hence they have no way of comparing the effects of the drugs they prescribe to placebos. When they prescribe a treatment and it works, their natural tendency is to attribute the cure to the treatment. But there are thousands of treatments that have worked in clinical practice throughout history. Powdered stone worked. So did lizard's blood, and crocodile dung, and pig's teeth and dolphin's genitalia and fr…
A few years ago, Tor Wager, a neuroscientist at Columbia University, wanted to figure out why placebos were so effective. His experiment was brutally straightforward: he gave college students electric shocks while they were stuck in an fMRI machine. (The subjects were well compensated, at least by undergraduate standards.)
For people who are depressed, and especially for those who do not receive enough benefit from medication of for whom the side effects of antidepressants are troubling, the fact that placebos can duplicate much of the effects of antidepressants should be taken as good news. It means that there are other ways of alleviating depression. As we have seen, treatments like psychotherapy and physical exercise are at least as effective as antidepressant drugs and more effective than p…
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Appears in: Crossroads, LAT, Newsday, New Yorker, NYT, S&S, Universal, USA TODAY.
Used 20 times in crossword archives (1966–2020).