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Ancient cultures developed a variety of bizarre healing methods and concoctions. But was their infrequent success due to their power, or placebo effect?

Sometimes arcane language is more precise than modern language.  The General Thanksgiving is found in the service of Morning Prayer. In Morning Prayer, Rite II, the prayer begs God to create in us an awareness of God’s mercies, that we might therefore be “truly” thankful. The same prayer in Rite I asks God to give us a “due sense” of God’s mercies, that our hearts might therefore be “unfeignedly” thankful. Unfeignedly thankful is not quite the same as truly thankful. To feign s...