Unto the woman He said, I will greatly multiply thy sorrow and thy conception; in sorrow thou shalt bring forth children. Genesis 3:16.
Ever since the discovery of anesthesia, men have been trying to defy God's word to Eve. In 1941, Drs. Robert Hingson and Waldo Edwards of the U.S. Public Health Service started experimenting with continuous caudal analgesiaslow injection of a pain-killing drug into the nerve canal at the base of the spineduring labor. Among their first subjects: Coast-guardsmen's wives at Staten Island's Stapleton Marine Hospital.
Last week at the International Congress of Anesthetists in Manhattan, Dr. Hingson was ready to...
To continue reading:
or
Log-In
