Pain and profits the history of the headache and its remedies in America / Jan R. McTavish.

Author/creator McTavish, Janice Rae
Format Electronic
Publication InfoNew Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press,
Descriptionvii, 239 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
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Contents 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index.
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Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2003022265
ISBN0813534402 (hbk. : alk. paper)
ISBN0813534410 (pbk. : alk. paper)

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