sugar pill
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The placebo may be an injectable saline solution, or water, or a sugar pill.
From Los Angeles Times • May 8, 2025
For example, in medication trials, it is well established that the color of a sugar pill makes a difference.
From Slate • May 10, 2018
Let's set Group 1 as those who received the actual new medicine being tested and therefore Group 2 is those who received the sugar pill.
From Textbooks • Nov. 29, 2017
It’s now a doctor’s prescription for every societal ill, the “take two aspirin and call me in the morning” of compassion — the sugar pill, maybe.
From New York Times • Aug. 2, 2016
HAHNEMANN, Doctor, of Leipsig, discovered the sugar pill and called it homeopathy.
From Who Was Who: 5000 BC - 1914 Biographical Dictionary of the Famous and Those Who Wanted to Be by Gordon, Irwin Leslie
