Pain and profits : the history of the headache and its remedies in America /
Jan R. McTavish.
- New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.
- vii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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.