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...child-birth was Dr. James Young Simpson (1811-70) of Edinburgh. In 1847 he used chloroform. Doctors and ministers denounced him for interfering with God's will. Dr. Simpson persisted and died rich, knighted and famed. In 1913 Drs. Bernard Kronig & Carl J. Gauss of Freiburg, Germany, invented 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...
...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...
...whole show was a portrait of England. It was full of pictures of substantial English gentlemen like the late Earl Jellicoe, Field Marshal Lord Milne, the Archbishop of Canterbury, the Lord Bishop of London, the Right Honorable Leslie Hore-Belisha. It included Battersea Twilight, two pictures of Plymouth Sound, a great number of hunting scenes, the usual Spring in Cornwall, this time by the Academy's first and only full-fledged female member, Laura Knight, Dame Commander of the Most Excellent Order of the British Empire. It had an extraordinary supply of studies of English bars, the Academician...
...vast contours of an elephant with widely variant results, the four biographers bring in antipodal reports on their huge subject. Following William Randolph Hearst from his abbreviated career at Harvard, through his early publishing ventures in California, his entry into New York, his pre-War triumphs and present stormy twilight. Authors Lundberg, Carlson & Bates liberally plaster Publisher Hearst with controversial tar, while Mrs. Older is equally generous in coating her hero with sympathetic whitewash. Some contrasting findings on the character & career of Mr. Hearst...
...magnificence, half a dozen men supplied the only signs of first-rate life: Casanova the rake, Goldoni the playwright and Painters Tiepolo, Canaletto, Francesco Guardi and Pietro Longhi. Last week Manhattan's Knoedler Galleries put on a show of the Venetian painters who made Venice's twilight tolerable...