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Pain and profits [electronic resource] : the history of the headache and its remedies in America / Jan R. McTavish.

By: McTavish, Janice Rae.
Material type: TextTextPublisher: New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004Bibliography: Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index.Description: 1 online resource (vii, 239 p.) : ill.ISBN: 0813536421 (electronic bk.); 9780813536422 (electronic bk.).Subject(s): Headache | Headache -- Treatment -- History | Analgesics -- United States -- History | Pharmaceutical industry -- United States -- History | Nonprescription drug industry | Drugs, NonprescriptionGenre/Form: Electronic books DDC classification: 616.8/49106 Online resources: Access full-text materials at no charge:
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.
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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.

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