PAIN OF CHILDBIRTH
REDUCED BY APPARATUS . LONDON EXHIBITION LONDON, Nov. 1. An apparatus for reducing the pain of childbirth is a feature of the London Medical Exhibition. Approved by the Central Midwives' Board, the apparatus is a means of administering nitrous oxide, commonly called laughing gas, in safe quantities to a patient and creating a condition in which, without any loss of consciousness, the sense of pain is reduced almost to nothing. Already in use in one London hospital, the apparatus requires no special skill to operate and it may even be left at the patient's bedside to be used as required. Cosmetic artificial features, for use in cases where surgery is unable to remedy a disfigurement, are also on display. Realistic false noses, ears and eye-sockets, made of soft plastic material, are shown. The initial cost, say for an artificial ear, is listed at £2O, but after the first fitting replacements cost only 3s each. I
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Poverty Bay Herald, Volume LXIV, Issue 19503, 9 December 1937, Page 10
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