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Is it time to kill the term “placebo effect”? A researcher looking at questionable medieval medicines, that are today shunned as placebos, has shown how early physicians triggered patient’s brains into making their body self-heal. The Healing Power (or Placebo Effect) of a Mother’s Kiss When we were children falling about and battering our knees, a kiss from mum on the kneecap would often see the pain dissipate immediately. We know now that those kisses weren’t magic and that the “placebo effect / response” was at play. In the pharmaceutical world this occurs when positive therapeutic outcomes are derived from inert treatments like sugar pills, saline injections and mother’s kisses. Fake It Til’ You Make it: A History of the