An Interactive Annotated World Bibliography of Printed and Digital Works in the History of Medicine and the Life Sciences from Circa 2000 BCE to 2024 by Fielding H. Garrison (1870-1935), Leslie T. Morton (1907-2004), and Jeremy M. Norman (1945- ) Traditionally Known as “Garrison-Morton”
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Of the imagination, as a cause and as a cure of disorders of the body; exemplified by fictitious tractors, and epidemical convulsions. Read to the Literary and Philosophical Society of Bath.Bath, England: Printed by R. Crutwell, 1800.The first clinical demonstration of the placebo effect, specifically in the context of Perkins' metallic tractors. Haybarth demonstrated the placebo effect caused by the tractors by obtaining the same results with wooden ones. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link. Subjects: PSYCHOLOGY, PSYCHOSOMATIC MEDICINE › Placebo / Nocebo, Quackery Permalink: historyofmedicine.com/id/9921 |