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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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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