1788 FALCONER, William (1744 – 1824)
A dissertation on the influence of passions upon disorders of the body.
A treatise on the psychosomatic aspects of certain diseases. Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 10004 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12193
1794 FRANCO, Francisco de Mello (1757 – 1822)
Medicina theologica, ou supplica humilde, feita a todos os senhores confessores e directores, sobre o modo de proceder com seus penitentes na emenda dos peccados, principalmente da lascivia, colera, e bebedice.
The first Portuguese work on psychosomatic medicine. The author was a Brazilian who worked in Portugal. Digital facsimile from Wellcomelibrary.org at this link.
GMN 11782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13983
1800 HAYGARTH, John (1740 – 1827)
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.
The first clinical demonstration of the placebo effect, specifically in the context of Perkins' metallic tractors. Haygarth demonstrated the placebo effect caused by the tractors by obtaining the same results with woo…
GMN 7749 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/9921
1842 HOLMES, Oliver Wendell Sr. (1809 – 1894)
Homoeópathy, and its kindred delusions; Two lectures delivered before the Boston Society for the Diffusion of Useful Knowledge.
Digital facsimile from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 11260 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13457
1872 TUKE, Daniel Hack (1827 – 1895)
Illustrations of the influence of the mind upon the body in health and disease, designed to elucidate the action of the imagination.
Digital facsimile from the Hathi Trust at this link.
GMN 12187 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14397
1897 CHARCOT, Jean Martin (1825 – 1893)
La foi qui guérit.
As one of his last works Charcot published this 38-page pamphlet on faith healing.
GMN 11127 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/13323
1910 OSLER, Sir William (1849 – 1919)
The faith that heals.
Perhaps Osler's most significant discussion of "faith" and faith healing. Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link. The same journal issue also contains Clifford Albutt's "Reflections on faith healing," pp. 1…
GMN 12188 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/14398
1922 COUÉ DE LA CHATAIGNERAIE, Émile [Coué] (1857 – 1926)
La maîtrise de soi-même par l'autosuggestion consciente.
English translation as Self-mastery through conscious autosuggestion, New York: Markan Publishing Co., 1922. Digital facsimile of the English translation from the Internet Archive at this link.
GMN 9413 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11596
1943 WOLF, Stewart George Jr. (1914 – 2005); WOLFF, Harold George (1898 – 1962)
Human gastric function. An experimental study of a man and his stomach.
Important experiments on gastric function, made on “Tom”, a man who had a gastric fistula from the age of 9. Second edition in 1947.
GMN 1041 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/1042
1950 WOLF, Stewart George Jr. (1914 – 2005)
Effects of suggestion and conditioning on the action of chemical agents in human subjects--the pharmacology of placebos.
Digital facsimile from PubMedCentral at this link.
GMN 13474 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/15748
1961 KENNEDY, Walter P.
The nocebo reaction.
Kennedy coined the term nocebo in this paper.
GMN 9414 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11597
1992 SHORTER, Edward (1941 – )
From paralysis to fatigue: A history of psychosomatic illness in the modern era.
GMN 9781 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11969
1993 SHORTER, Edward (1941 – )
From the mind into the body: The cultural origins of psychosomatic symptoms.
GMN 9782 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11970
1997 SHAPIRO, Arthur K. (1923 – 1995); SHAPIRO, Elaine (1925 – 2014)
The powerful placebo: From ancient priest to modern physician.
GMN 9463 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11646
2002 MOERMAN, Daniel Ellis (1941 – )
Meaning, medicine and the "placebo effect".
"Moerman places the words "Placebo effect" in quotations because he believes that the placebo effect should be redefined. A placebo, he explains is inert. It has no causal effect. A more appropriate definition of the …
GMN 10194 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/12383
2014 HALLER, John S. Jr. (1940 – )
Shadow medicine: The placebo in conventional and alternative therapies.
GMN 9412 · https://historyofmedicine.com/id/11595
