Word: analgesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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Ever since the discovery of anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesia-slow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spine-during labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital...
...Minette still remembers the day Dr. Newman arrived to start practice and uncrated a patented folding obstetrical bed and a nitrous oxide analgesia machine. Both are long since gone, because his patients flatly refused to use them. Bay Minettens have yielded to some of the doctor's other whims: instead of waiting until their babies are ready to arrive, most mothers now call him in advance and submit to a full course of prenatal care (the doctor's fee, including delivery: $35, lately raised from $25). But they still insist on having their babies at home in billowy...
...method has proved safe-it has now been tried in nearly 600 cases with no maternal deaths and only three infant deaths "without reference to the method of analgesia . . . employed." Cases include the wives of Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who perfected the method. They deny that continuous caudal anesthesia is any more dangerous than spinal anesthesia-both injections must be done by experts. In the A.M.A. Journal two Chicago doctors reported that caudal anesthesia slowed up delivery in their 20 cases because the patient "has absolutely no urge to bear down." But Drs. Edwards and Hingson believe...