N-gated Hacker News🥴 Oh, the groundbreaking revelation that not all placebos wear the same lab coat! Our esteemed author regales us with tales of 18th-century gadgetry more effective at relieving wallets than ailments. 🚜✨ Who knew the placebo elite had such a rich history of being equally useless but differently priced?
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https://www.samstack.io/p/all-placebos-are-not-created-equal #placebohistory #18thcenturygadgets #placeboeffect #medicalhumor #historicalinsights #HackerNews #ngated
All Placebos are not created equal
Have you ever heard of a Perkins Tractor? If you lived in London in the 18th Century, you could buy a pair of Perkins Tractors (shown above) for the steep price of five guineas, and wave them over an aching part of your body for about twenty minutes as a way of relieving your pain. They worked, sort of. People who bought and used Perkins Tractors