Placebo

Placebo comes from the Latin for "I shall please." The term was used in the 14th century to refer to sham mourners who were hired to wail and sob for the deceased at funerals. By 1785 it appeared in the New Medical Dictionary, attached to marginal practices of medicine.
Predictably Irrational. Dan Ariely. 2009:228-229.

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