Victorian-American Headaches: Part 7

Victorian-American Headaches: Part 7

Beyond prescriptions (including “Doctor’s Own Patent Medicine” — we’ve seen a few of those in Part 4), what could osteopathic physicians and medical doctors do to alleviate their patients’ suffering from headache?

Old West Dentistry

Old West Dentistry

Dentistry in the Old West was dangerous… if a body could find a dentist.

Doc Holliday (of Tombstone and O.K. Corral fame) was a dentist– and a gambler.

Clay Allison attacked his dentist with intent to rip out the doc’s molar–“tooth for tooth.”