NEW PAINLESS CHILDBIRTH
(Rec. 9 a.m.) NEW YORK, Jan. 22. The "Journal of the American Medical Association" says that Dr. Robert Hingson and Dr. Waldo Edwards, of the United States Public Health Service Hospital on Staten Island, have reported a new method of providing painless and safer childbirth. The method has been tested on 589 cases, involving 586 live births, with no complications or deaths by mothers. The method consists of continuous injection of a solution of metycainej into the lower tip of the spine, producing continuous caudal analgesia. Physicians said it provided the maxi mum comfort for the mother and mini mum risk to her and the child. They added that they believed continuous caudal analgesia opened a new medical horizon.
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Evening Post, Volume CXXXV, Issue 19, 23 January 1943, Page 5
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