TY - JOUR
AU - DAVIS, CARL H.
AB - 
        If the belief that pain is an inevitable accompaniment of labor has, in the past, reconciled mothers to endure it, the joy of successful motherhood has caused them to forget it. Severe pain is not essential to childbirth, and there is no logical reason why women should endure it. For many centuries drugs have been used to relieve pain in surgical cases, but it was only sixty-eight years ago that Simpson introduced anesthetics into obstetric practice. Six years later, when Queen Victoria gave them her seal of approval chloroform a la reine became the fashion and analgesia was maintained for many hours in large numbers of cases.
        
          DEVELOPMENT OF ANESTHETICS
          The development of anesthetics is an interesting chapter in the history of medicine. Sir Humphrey Davy, in 1800, discovered the anesthetic properties of nitrous oxid, and suggested its employment in surgery in the following words: "As nitrous oxid, in its
        
      
TI - NITROUS OXID ANALGESIA IN OBSTETRICS
JF - JAMA
DO - 10.1001/jama.1915.02580120004002
DA - 1915-09-18
UR - https://www.deepdyve.com/lp/american-medical-association/nitrous-oxid-analgesia-in-obstetrics-em9aWJSCTc
SP - 992
EP - 994
VL - LXV
IS - 12
DP - DeepDyve
ER -