Pain and Profits
Subtitle: The History of the Headache and Its Remedies in America
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: July 2004
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 239
ISBN-13: 9780813534411
Subjects: History of specific subjects; Pharmaceutical industries; Pharmacology; Medical / Nursing; Medical; USA; History; Neurology - Headache; Headache; Treatment
First sentence: On the sunny spring morning of 9 April 1865, a few miles west of the small Virginia town of Appomattox court House, General Ulysses S. Grant, commander of the Union forces, was in no mood to admire the weather.