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Pain and profits : the history of the headache and its remedies in America /

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: McTavish, Janice Rae
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
Subjects:
Headache.
Headache > Treatment > History.
Headache > drug therapy > United States.
Analgesics > history > United States.
Drug Industry > history > United States.
Nonprescription Drugs > history > United States.
Table of 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.