dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby) (12/03/85)
In article <257@ur-tut.UUCP> john@ur-tut.UUCP (John Gurian) writes: >Incidently, no one has ever proved the familar anti-diarrheal, Kaopectate, works >clinically, indeed pharmacologically there is no reason why it should, but it >continues to sell very well anyway because people think it works, & MD's >order it for their patients 'cause their patients think it works, and everyone's >happy, more or less. I took Kaopectate when I ran out of Lomotil one distressing time, even though I was convinced it would not work; Pepto-Bismol had never helped, and I figured I would need something a whole lot stronger than one could get over the counter. But Kaopectate worked. It worked as well as Lomotil. Is there perhaps such thing as a reverse placebo? ----------------------------------------------------------------- Dave Kirby ( ...!ihnp4!akgub!cylixd!dave)