In a message dated 9/21/98 8:17:51 AM Central Daylight Time, [log in to unmask] writes: << of Parkinson's? It would seem that the well-known placebo effect would have generated some cures. I have not seem/heard/found stories of such cures. Am I missing something? >> Mike, I have a predjudice: I seriously doubt that anyone in whom a "placebo effect" produces a cure was properly diagnosed with paralysis agitans (PD). Regards, WHH 55/19