Belief: An amazing healing device

Pharmaceutical Journal

Volumn 274, Issue 7349, 2005, Pages 590-592

  Sturgess, Ray ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACETYLSALICYLIC ACID; APOMORPHINE; ARCANE; ASAFETIDA EXTRACT; DIGITALIS; HERBACEOUS AGENT; MERCURY DERIVATIVE; MORPHINE; NEW DRUG; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OPIATE; PLACEBO; PLANT EXTRACT; QUASSIA EXTRACT; SODIUM CHLORIDE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACUPUNCTURE; ALTERNATIVE MEDICINE; ANESTHESIOLOGICAL TECHNIQUES; ARTHROSCOPIC SURGERY; ASAFETIDA; CORONARY ARTERY SURGERY; DOCTOR PATIENT RELATION; DRUG APPROVAL; DRUG EFFICACY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; DRUG POTENCY; DRUG RESPONSE; EVIDENCE BASED MEDICINE; HEALING; HEALTH CARE COST; HEART FAILURE; HERBAL MEDICINE; HOMEOPATHY; HUMAN; HYPOCHONDRIASIS; MEDICAL EDUCATION; MEDICAL ETHICS; MEDICAL PROFESSION; MEDICATION ERROR; PARKINSON DISEASE; PEPTIC ULCER; PHARMACEUTICAL CARE; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; QUASSIA; REVIEW; SYPHILIS; ULTRASOUND THERAPY;

EID: 20344406233     PISSN: 00316873     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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