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Arch Otolaryngol. 1964;79(5):435-436.

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A provocative editorial in the Nov 30, 1963, JAMA (vol 186:858) entitled "Ethics and Experimental Therapy" has possible applications to Otolaryngology. The author, Dr. Henry K. Beecher, notes the increasing awareness of the power of suggestion and of the power of placebos. He recalls the carefully controlled study of a man with angina pectoris who, after four minutes of standardized exercise, had intolerable pain with inversion of his T waves. After operation he was able to exercise ten minutes with no pain and no inversion of his T waves. But in this case the patient had only a sham procedure, a skin incision over both internal mammary arteries. The operation of ligation of both internal mammary arteries for angina pectoris was thus shown to be useless, hastening the discreditation of this dangerous procedure only two years after its enthusiastic introduction to this country. Medical history recounts a number of operations . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

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