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Record Nr.

UNINA9910450190403321

Autore

McTavish Janice Rae

Titolo

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

Pubbl/distr/stampa

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

ISBN

0-8135-5786-0

0-8135-3642-1

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (251 p.)

Disciplina

616.8/49106

Soggetti

Headache

Headache - Treatment - History

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 175-232) and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.