Word: gwathmey
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...twilight sleep, which they induced by injecting a combination of morphine and scopolamine into a woman who was about to have a baby. Lapsing into a dreamy state, the mother knows what is going on but feels little, gives no wilful assistance to Nature. In 1923 Dr. James Taylor Gwathmey of Manhattan proposed another combination of drugs for "synergistic anesthesia." He produced drowsiness and anesthesia by injecting morphine and epsom salts into the mother's muscles, quinine, alcohol and ether in olive oil into the rectum...
...Gauss twilight sleep and Gwathmey synergy and proposed other combinations of drugs to dull labor's pangs. The doctors who rendered reports were enthusiastic about results...
Near Red Bank, N. J., on the estate of Amory L. Haskell, Temple Gwathmey, 23-year-old gentleman rider and socialite, was thrown by his horse Brown Ruler in the Holmdel Steeplechase. Rushed to a hos pital, he soon died of a broken neck...
...Pierce & Co.* was formed as successor to A. A. Hausman-Gwathmey & Co. Rapidly the new firm began an unparalleled career. By Jan. 24 it acquired another house, has been growing ever since. Soon no dispute arose when the phrase "largest wire house" was used in connection with E. A. Pierce & Co. Since last fall its primacy has been strengthened by numerous acquisitions. Of these, purchase of the brokerage business of Merrill, Lynch & Co. was the most important, and the taking over last week of four of the seven offices of Charles D. Robbins & Co. was the latest...
...Easier Motherhood" describes synergistic anaesthesia by the Gwathmey technic. Known to medicine for about a decade, it consists of the specialized administration of magnesium sulphate, ether and morphine combined in a dose suited to the individual. Extensively and very successfully used in Manhattan hospitals, it has, says Author Todd, "'converted crying rooms into chambers of silence." Yet so little is it appreciated among obstetricians generally that in the last five years it is estimated only two-tenths of one per-'cent of U. S. mothers have experienced its benefits...