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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
Published New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, ©2004

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Description 1 online resource (vii, 239 pages) : illustrations
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
Analysis Andre fag (naturvidenskab og teknik) Andre fag
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 175-232) and index
Notes English
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Subject Headache.
Headache -- Treatment -- History
Drug Industry -- history
Nonprescription Drugs -- history
Analgesics -- history
Headache -- drug therapy
Headache
HEALTH & FITNESS -- Diseases -- Nervous System (incl. Brain)
MEDICAL -- Neurology.
Headache
Headache -- Treatment
United States
Genre/Form Electronic books
History
Form Electronic book
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