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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...
...TIME, Feb. 1) without loss of a single mother from the anesthetic. Its advantages: it cuts off pain sensations, without impairing a mother's ability to help the childbirth process; it usually shortens delivery time; it does not drug the child. But few medicos besides Drs. R. A. Hingson and W. B. Edwards, who developed the technique, feel absolutely sure of themselves when using...
...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...
...Edwards and Hingson have traveled to about 20 hospitals teaching the system, and some comments they won sound like patent medicine testimonials. Dr. Francis R. Irving of Syracuse University's College of Medicine says "there is no question that it is perfect painless childbirth without deleterious effect on mother or child." Dr. John S. Lundy of the Mayo Clinic says "I think it is fine...
...Edwards and Hingson are aware that their cases (33 when they wrote their article but now nearly 100) represent a limited experience, so they urge busier hospitals to try out their method. Some doctors object that this type of anesthesia is more likely to injure nerves and blood vessels or produce cerebral reactions than anesthetics such as gases...