Could anyone help my colleague Dr. Howard Broday who is a Visitin gProfessor at my campus? Thanks, Emory Elliott ****** Howard writes: Query to the Mark Twain list-serv I am interested in the placebo effect and wish in some of my future writing on the subject to use the following anecdote, taken from a newsletter which did not supply a scholarly citation: The Summer 2000 issue of "The Lown Forum" from the Lown Cardiovascular Research Foundation contains an article by Dr. Bernard Lown on "The Placebo: Much Ado About Something." Dr. Lown begins with an anecdote involving Mark Twain when the author put up in a cheap hotel in Mississippi one sweltering summer night. He was exhausted but found he could not get to sleep in the oppressive, stagnant air of his room. Finally he became so desperate and frustrated that he hurled a shoe against the window. He heard the shattering of glass and immediately felt a cool breeze wafting off the river outside. He turned over contentedly and immediately fell asleep. Next morning, Twain awoke and began to look around to see what damage he had caused. He saw his shoe on the floor-- beneath a shattered mirror, which had been placed right next to the still-intact, still-closed window. I would be very grateful for guidance as to which volume of Twain's work contains this story. Please reply directly to me at: [log in to unmask] as I am not a subscriber to the listserv. Thank you very much. Howard Brody MD, PhD Family Practice/Center for Ethics and Humanities, Michigan State University Visiting Faculty, Center for Ideas and Society, UC-Riverside Emory Elliott Department of English University of California, Riverside Riverside, CA 92521 Fax: 909-787-6377/276-1624 Tel:909-787-3987/276-1157