Pain and profits
Subtitle: the history of the headache and its remedies in America
By: Jan R. McTavish
Contributors: NetLibrary, Inc
Publisher: Rutgers University Press
Published: 2004
Place of publication: New Brunswick, N.J
Language: eng
Format: [electronic resource] :
Number of pages: 239
Subjects: Drugs, Non-Prescription; Drug Industry; History; Treatment; Analgesics; Headache; Drug therapy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index.

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Table of contents: title: The headache and its treatment in the nineteenth century; title: Free choice and free enterprise in nineteenth century American drug supply; title: Doctors and the drug trade; title: The remarkable synthetic drugs; title: Druggists, doctors and the law; title: The Bayer Company: drugs as big business; title: Did the headache finally meet its match?; title: The headache in the twentieth century.