substance abuse

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That's the phenomenon in which people's symptoms improve after taking an inactive substance simply because they believe the treatment will work.

From US News • Jan. 28, 2015

The idea of the equality of men is in substance simply the idea of the importance of man.

From A Short History of England by Chesterton, G. K. (Gilbert Keith)

Thus, in the genus substance, the whole composed of its integral or essential parts, is one simply: because the whole is being and substance simply, and the parts are being and substances in the whole.

From Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) From the Complete American Edition by Thomas, Aquinas, Saint

A complex substance simply means a whirl, an intricate dance, of which chemical composition, histological structure, and gross configuration are the figures.

From The Breath of Life by Burroughs, John