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Author McTavish, Janice Rae.

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

Imprint New Brunswick, N.J. : Rutgers University Press, c2004.

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 Axe ProQuest E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vii, 239 p. : ill.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Headache.
Headache -- Treatment -- History.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 0813534402 (hbk. : alk. paper)
0813534410 (pbk. : alk. paper)

 
    
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