Medicine
- December 24 - Henry K. Beecher publishes a paper indicating the powerful effect of placebos on patient outcomes.
- Outbreak of "Royal Free disease" or "benign myalgic encephalomyelitis", strongly resembling what will later be known as chronic fatigue syndrome, among staff at the Royal Free Hospital in London.
Read more about this topic: 1955 In Science
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“Hygiene is the corruption of medicine by morality. It is impossible to find a hygienest who does not debase his theory of the healthful with a theory of the virtuous.... The true aim of medicine is not to make men virtuous; it is to safeguard and rescue them from the consequences of their vices.”
—H.L. (Henry Lewis)
“No medicine in the world can do thee good;
In thee there is not half an hour’s life.”
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