Arabic-L:TRANS:placebo query

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Date:  23 Nov 2001
From: "Kenneth K. Ayouby" <sm-kka at visitus.net>
Subject: placebo query

Dear List Members,

Aside from "dawaa' wahmi" or "'ilaaj badiil" for the term placebo,
what other terms might members be familiar with? Any notions for
"placebo effect"?  "ta'-thiir wahmi" (or kaadhib)?

Anyone familiar with a term for a similar concept to placebo in
medieval Arabic medical texts? I am thinking also of alchemy and its
"spiritual" connections to Sufism, and the potential for the presence
of a "placebo" concept.

Any ideas?

Many thanks.

Kenneth K. Ayouby

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