Word: analgesia
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...Pope also had a word for those who fear that analgesia in childbirth is inconsistent with the biblical "In sorrow shalt thou bring forth children." Painkilling in labor, said the Pontiff, is an honest, moral endeavor, "so long as no danger ... results for either mother or infant, and so long as the tender sentiments of parenthood are neither diminished nor destroyed...
Last week Parliament was bickering about the surest and quickest way to teach midwives analgesia (relief of pain without complete loss of consciousness). There are still 7,000 out of 17,000 practicing British midwives who have had no such training. A bill to require midwives to learn analgesia within four years has been backed by Labor's red-haired Leah Manning. Mrs. Manning's argument: "If some doctors had a labor ward of men to look after, I think it highly probable that for the defense of their sanity they would give their patients something more than...
...factor. Even the Anna Louise Strong incident was cited as "fitting into the pattern." The Communist London Daily Worker didn't know any more than the infidel press, so it weaseled. It put its banner headline on a House of Commons debate about a bill to provide analgesia for childbirth: COMMONS BACKS PAIN RELIEF FOR MOTHERS. Then, into column 5, halfway down, it dropped a three-inch story with the noncommittal head: MOLOTOV REPLACED BY VISHINSKY...
Fields for Research. Dr. Ivy's colleagues consider him one of the nation's top physiqlogists. He is an expert on stomach ulcers (TIME, April 28, 1941), aviation medicine (TIME, Oct. 6, 1941), cancer (TIME, Dec. 16, 1946), analgesia (pain killers), gall-bladder and liver complaints, diseases of old age. His proudest achievement: discovery of a hormone which he thinks shows promise as a stomach-ulcer cure (the hormone: enterogastrone, extracted from hog intestines...
Last week at the International Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan, Dr. Hingson was ready to talk statistics. In more than 2,000 childbirths under caudal analgesia, said he, more than 90% of the mothers had complete relief from pain; the death rate was less than half that of a group of mothers who did not get the treatment. Furthermore, the death rate of babies in the first week of life was 11.5 per 1,000 as opposed to 20.8 in the other group. Reason: continuous caudal analgesia relaxes the mother's muscles so that the baby does not take...