RT Journal
T1 THe evolution of obstetric analgesia
JF Journal of the American Medical Association
JO Journal of the American Medical Association
YR 1939
FD June 24
VO 112
IS 25
SP 2628
OP 2629
DO 10.1001/jama.1939.02800250052032
UL http://dx.doi.org/10.1001/jama.1939.02800250052032
AB The author wrote this book because "no English volume solely on the subject has stressed its historical aspect." He discusses the two main landmarks, the introduction of ether and chloroform into obstetrics by Simpson and the elaboration of twilight sleep by Gauss. Likewise he expresses his own ideas concerning the scopolamine-morphine technic, which he learned from Gauss in Würzburg in 1931. There are also chapters on scopolamine amnesia, the barbiturates and more inhalation anesthetics, nitrous oxide and ethylene, the last written by W. Stanley Sykes. Claye says "We have on my suggestion aimed at giving some form of analgesia to every patient in labor.... This, as regards inhalation anesthetics, is carried out almost entirely by medical students and... the work has been in the great majority of cases conscientiously and efficiently done." In the United States, medical students are rarely permitted to give inhalation anesthetics. Claye further remarks "I think...