Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...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...
...fine if only a patient could calmly accept the idea of an operation. But patients almost never do. Most people have psychological weak spots and most surgical patients are "apprehensive, anxious people, reacting emotionally rather than rationally." They fear death (many make their wills just before an operation), pain, disfigurement, loss of function. The fears are as much a part of the patient as his gallstones or diseased appendix...
...right along until they find out whether the yellow girl gets off or not. Before they get through, however, a good many who order this one will understand the words of Kirk's plain-spoken sister-in-law: "There ain't a mite of use of dodging pain. [God will] hand you the cup, and then you got to dreen...
...greatness of "Live Today for Tomorrow" lies in its acting, which is splendid but not-over-done. Florence Eldridge portrays not an insane Catherine Cook, but one in pain. And Frederic March acts as if he himself were undergoing the emotional metamorphosis his part demands. In his own austere way, March personifies the awful tragedy of a man whose love for his wife is so great that he will even kill her to alleviate her suffering. This film is convincing proof that the most hopelessly overworked subject matter can become worthwhile entertainment with proper treatment...
Natural childbirth, said Dr. Goodrich, is not completely painless; only about 2% of the 400 patients reported no pain at all. The majority felt some pain, which they were "quite willing to tolerate in view of the exaltation accompanying conscious delivery." Some drugs were used, too. Only 35% had their babies without any anesthesia or painkilling drugs ; about half the rest had small doses of Demerol or whiffs of nitrous oxide (dentistry's "laughing gas"). The mothers were told to ask for drugs if they felt they needed them. Only 12% were not fully conscious...