The word for an inactive medication, used mostly as a blind in clinical trials, is a placebo.
Although the name and use of placebo treatments dates back to ancient times, the phrase 'Placebo Effect' was first mentioned by the English physician Dr. T.C. Graves who wrote in 1920 that there appeared to be a "real psychotherapeutic effect" when treating patients with a placebo.
Placebo
The Placebo Effect
the pill that represented the placebo
running up that hill - placebo
placebo
Placebo - band - was created in 1994.
No. Why would someone make a placebo that you can die from?
Generally as a noun.Example: He swallowed the placebo.It also works as "The Placebo Effect", and also the band Placebo.
Running Up That Hill- by Placebo
Placebo Cure was created on 2006-10-19.