Remarks on the superinduction of anæsthesia in natural and morbid parturition : with cases illustrative of the effects of chloroform in midwifery; and answers to alleged religious objections against the practice / by J.Y. Simpson, M.D.

  • Simpson, James Young, 1811-1870.
Date:
1847
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Credit: Remarks on the superinduction of anæsthesia in natural and morbid parturition : with cases illustrative of the effects of chloroform in midwifery; and answers to alleged religious objections against the practice / by J.Y. Simpson, M.D. Source: Wellcome Collection.

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    different authorities for the same opinion, that this deep sleep was induced upon Adam in order that he might not feel pain from the removal of the rib.* And the profundity of the sleep, as expressed in the Hebrew, is also worthy of note. For the noun tar- demah, translated in our version deep sleep, f signi- fies, according to all the best Hebrew scholars, the deepest form of induced slumber. In the early and very literal Greek translation which Aquila made of the Bible, he renders, in this passage, the Hebrew word tardemah by the expressive Greek term %aTa<popa, a term which Hippocrates, Galen, iEtius, and other Greek physicians, used as implying that state of deep insensi- bility and total unconsciousness which in modern medi- cal language we express by coma and lethargy.\ Gesenius renders tardemah by the Latin word sopor, the Hebrew term for common sleep being shenah. In the Vulgate it is translated sopor (immisit Deus sopor em in Adam). In the quotation which I have given from Calvin, that great authority renders the * Ne ablationis costse dolorem sentiret.—Poli Synopsis Criti- corum aliorumque Scriptures Interpretum. Vol. I. p. 29.—See also the same opinion expressed in Kosenmuller's Scholia Vetus in Testa- mentum, vol. I. p. 106, Adamo, somno sopito, ne dolorem senti- ret : and in the English Commentaries of Bishop Patrick, p. 14, Whereby he was made less sensible of the pain, which otherwise he would have felt in the opening his side ; and of Drs D'Oyly andMant, Adam was thus less sensible of bodily pain ; &c. &c. ■j In Luther's German Bible, an exactly corresponding expres- sion tiefen schlaf is used. In Dathe's valued Latin version of the Pentateuch, a similar translation is given, Deus gravem Adamo soporem immisit,'1' p. 27. \ Cataphora (from Karacpepa, to sink or fall down,) a term used by some authors to designate a state of coma, and by others an unusually profound sleep.—Hooper's Medical Dictionary.