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From: dave@cylixd.UUCP (Dave Kirby)
Newsgroups: net.med
Subject: Kaopectate
Message-ID: <547@cylixd.UUCP>
Date: Tue, 3-Dec-85 12:42:53 EST
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Posted: Tue Dec  3 12:42:53 1985
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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?

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