The Placebo Effect Isn’t Fake — It’s Your Brain Saving Your Life
In the battle field of World War II, wounded soldiers were screaming for morphine. Dr. Henry K. Beecher, a Harvard anesthesiologist, had none left. A nurse grabbed saline solution, salt water. Nothing more. She injected it into the soldiers. They relaxed. Their pain faded. Some even smiled. Beecher stood there, stunned. He realized something that…
