Pain and profits : the history of the headache and its remedies in America / Jan R. McTavish.
Publication details: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.Description: vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cmISBN:- 0813534402 (hbk. : alk. paper)
- 0813534410 (pbk. : alk. paper)
- 616.8/49106 22
- RB128 .M386 2004
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Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index.
The headache and its treatment in the nineteenth century -- Free choice and free enterprise in nineteenth century American drug supply -- Doctors and the drug trade -- The remarkable synthetic drugs -- Druggists, doctors and the law -- The Bayer Company: drugs as big business -- Did the headache finally meet its match? -- The headache in the twentieth century.
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