An actual medical prescription written by doctors for psychosomatic symptoms. The pill is merely a sugar or salt tablet and is intended to spark a placebo-effect. In fact, the word is "placebo" spelled backwards.
> Since medical tests found nothing wrong with the patient, the doctor resorted to prescribing a high dosage of obecalp and hoped that a placebo effect would relieve the pain.

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Today were looking at various ways to say because, including due to,since, and as. Wordy Ways to Say Because First, lets disparage all the wordy ways to express the meaning because. There are quite a few: due to the fact that, owing to the fact that,

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The man who helped Thailand survive the Asian financial crisis says reforms a decade ago have made the region's banks better able to weather the global economic downturn. Former Finance Minister Tarrin Nimmanahaeminda also gave his endorsement to ba

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By Mike O'Sullivan Los Angeles 24 January 2006 Few singers have had the impact of Elvis Presley. Born to poverty in rural Mississippi, he soared to stardom in the 1950s and popularized American rock a

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