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The history of placebo likely goes as far back in history as we do but the first documented medical placebo occurred in 1796 when a Dr. Elisha Perkins began marketing a new healthcare product called the “Perkins Tractor”. Heralded as a medical breakthrough the tractor was nothing other than two metal sticks one made of iron and the other […]

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