**Henry K. Beecher** (1904 – 1976) was a professor of anesthesiolog...
The word *placebo* comes from the Latin for “I will please” and can...
## First placebo controlled trial One of the first documented plac...
[Here is a recent study](https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/...
It’s important to note that even tho this publication remains one o...
Beecher was one of the first researchers to recognize the importanc...
In the paper entitled [A Study of the Placebo Response](https://www...