Word: pain
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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...analgesic that is perfectly safe for both mother and child has not been discovered. The use of anything that deadens sensation distorts the natural process of childbirth and depresses the respiratory functions of the child. Certainly no woman will wish to be relieved of pain at the risk of harm to her baby...
...Where fear causes pain, there is no cure. Even the use-of drugs is ineffective. In childbirth, we are lucky because we have nine months in which to build up an understanding so that the mother-if properly instructed-will not have this fear. That is the modern physician's duty...
Most physicians concede that childbirth is the most painful experience endured by human beings. Yet last week's A. M. A. discussions on the alleviation of that physical agony were largely academic for the practical reason that two out of three normal births in the U. S: today are accomplished without any form of pain-killer for the mother. Because the great majority of women bear this natural ordeal bravely, they have made no concerted demand for relief in childbed nor have more than a handful of pioneer doctors attempted to give them any. After last week...
Eskimos "can tolerate pain, extreme cold, and fatigue." When the Montreal doctor stopped at Pond Inlet on Baffin Island, he encountered a native who, impatient at the delay of healing a frozen foot, had shortly before amputated the gangrenous portion himself. The wound was healing and the man, "with the aid of a cane, assisted at the unloading of the cargo...
Responsible for most physical pain and damage have been the four famed Dusek brothers, who have meticulously adhered to their slogan, "Never a Dull Bout with a Dusek." Last week in Manhattan the four Duseks appeared on the same card, made themselves thoroughly unpopular by savagely thumping & kicking their way to victories in three out of four matches. Only 215-lb. Emil, lightest and mildest of the four, was unable...