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

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

vii, 239 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

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.

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