Word: paines
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Dates: during 1940-1949
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...pain an inevitable part of childbirth? One grin-&-bear-it school of doctors says it is.* But the search for ways to relieve the mother's pain is as old as civilization. The ancient Egyptians tried herbs, the Chinese opium. Neither worked very well. The coming of anesthesia more than a century ago did not help much. General anesthetics such as chloroform and ether made the patient unconscious, and thus unable to cooperate with the doctor and with nature's attempts to push out the baby...
Risky Past. An ideal childbirth anesthetic would be safe for both mother & child, take away most of the pain, leave the mother able to cooperate with nature. Doctors have tried many anesthetics, always found something wrong. The big drawback to "twilight sleep," popular in the early 1900s; the drugs used (scopolamine or hyoscine hydrobromide, with barbiturates) might, like too much ether and chloroform, poison the baby through the blood of the mother. Continuous caudal anesthesia, first used for childbirth in 1941, has pitfalls for inexperienced doctors (if the needle gets into the spinal canal, the mother...
...spine by gravity (by tilting the delivery table until the proper areas are anesthetized). In conventional spinal anesthesia, the anesthetic may rise too far and stop the patient's breathing. Usually only one injection is necessary. It acts quickly (in one to ten minutes), and relief from pain lasts from two to four hours. The patient is so comfortable that, when labor is long, she can eat, drink or smoke...
...Pain. In Los Angeles, hospital attendants ministered to Leonard Eaton, who got his nose caught in a folding...
...London audience felt all right-but pain, not pleasure. Said one listener after the concert: "It sounded like they were always tuning up." And the critics gave the First a glacial reception. Said the Daily Herald: "Except at the dentist's, I don't remember a longer 35 minutes." The Times, which didn't like it at all, summed up in deadpan fashion: "It contained some loud and soft, quick and slow sounds." The Daily Mail's advice: "the cobbler should stick to his last...