On safe delivery from the pains of labour, or painless parturition with full mental consciousness : (read before the Harveian Society, March 21, 1867) / by Isaac Brown.

  • Browne, Lennox, 1841-1902.
Date:
1867
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Credit: On safe delivery from the pains of labour, or painless parturition with full mental consciousness : (read before the Harveian Society, March 21, 1867) / by Isaac Brown. Source: Wellcome Collection.

Provider: This material has been provided by The Royal College of Surgeons of England. The original may be consulted at The Royal College of Surgeons of England.

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    SAFE DELIYEEY FROM THE FAINS OF LABOUR. ♦ TT is not to be wondered at, indeed it would be strange if it bad been otherwise, that the discoverer of chloroform, himself professor of midwifery in our great Northern University, should, as soon as he had found means of making insensible pain by the knife, have appHed the same great principle to the relief of that pain of which he was so constantly a witness— “ the great pain and travail of labour.” Many of us have not, except by tradition, an idea of what pain v^ras before the introduction of anesthesia, and consequently we are too apt to accept this boon as a matter of course, without considering through how much toil, how much opposition and obloquy, those who succeeded in bringing it to perfection suffered before their efforts were crowned with success. These remarks seem to me the more called for, because one often hears it stated that Sir James Simpson’s discovery of the