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Many of the above treatments may have been believed to be specific for the cure of disease, rather than simply a treatment to ‘please’ the patient (using the very original definition of a placebo). In other words, the intention of the clinician may not have been to prescribe a placebo, as he or she may have believed that the treatment was a cure for a disease, even if a placebo was actually given.
— Damien Finniss -editors – Luana Colloca & Magne Arve Flaten & Karin Meissner, Placebo and Pain. From Bench to Bedside, 2013 – Historical Aspects of Placebo Analgesia-
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