**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...