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Author McTavish, Janice Rae.

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

Publication Info. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, [2004]
©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-232) and index.
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.
Note Print version record.
Subject Headache.
Headache -- Treatment -- History.
Headache -- drug therapy.
Analgesics -- history.
Drug Industry -- history.
Nonprescription Drugs -- history.
United States.
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
Headache. (OCoLC)fst00952645
Headache -- Treatment. (OCoLC)fst00952655
Indexed Term Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
Other Form: Print version: McTavish, Janice Rae. Pain and profits. New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004 0813534402 0813534410 (DLC) 2003022265 (OCoLC)53231813
ISBN 0813536421 (electronic bk.)
9780813536422 (electronic bk.)
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