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...method of effecting painless childbirth by continued injections of metycaine in the caudal area just below the spinal column (TIME, Sept. 14) last week won approval in the Journal of the A.M.A. and hit the front pages of big U.S. dailies. Wrote Journal Editor Morris Fishbein for the Chicago Times: "The young physicians who developed this method [have] attained a goal long sought by mankind-and especially desired by womankind-since the beginnings of human life...
...York Herald Tribune and the Chicago Tribune suspected that caudal anesthesia would prove to have drawbacks similar to those of the long series of "painless" methods introduced since the century's turn-drawbacks to the mother such as delirium, narcosis, cyanosis, vomiting, short duration of anesthesia; drawbacks to the child such as narcosis and asphyxia-and asked obstetricians for opinions. The doctors' answers were all conservative...
...method has proved safe-it has now been tried in nearly 600 cases with no maternal deaths and only three infant deaths "without reference to the method of analgesia . . . employed." Cases include the wives of Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who perfected the method. They deny that continuous caudal anesthesia is any more dangerous than spinal anesthesia-both injections must be done by experts. In the A.M.A. Journal two Chicago doctors reported that caudal anesthesia slowed up delivery in their 20 cases because the patient "has absolutely no urge to bear down." But Drs. Edwards and Hingson believe...
...American Journal of Surgery by Drs. Waldo Edwards and Robert Hingson, who developed it at the U.S. Marine Hospital (where wives of Coast Guardsmen have their babies) on Staten Island, N.Y. The anesthetic is continuous and localized in the pelvic region. A silver needle is inserted into the caudal area, just below the spinal column, where it remains throughout labor. The needle is connected with a flask of the anesthetic, two-thirds of an ounce of which is administered every 30 or 40 minutes. Longest labor during which the anesthetic has been given: 13 hours. The primary purpose...
...small circle in shallow water, the tribal chief waded in, waving a bewitched fan. After him followed a few huge Fijians who grasped three-and four-foot sharks by the tail, picked them up thrashing, quietly kissed them-either on the belly or just in front of the caudal fin. Thereupon each ugly shark went rigid, was put ashore never to move again...