The Donaldsonville chief. [volume] (Donaldsonville, La.) 1871-current, 1914-09-12
WONDERS Of TWILIGHT GLEEP

Mothers Have No knowledse of Brit
| of Babies Until Hours Afterwarc
| Treatment Declared to be AS
sured Success.
| A news despatch from New York
city, under date of Sept. 4, reports
that the one hundred and fifteenth
American twilight Sleep baby was
born the preceding day in the Jewish
| Maternity Hospital, at No. 27O East
| Broadway.
The mother, Mrs. Mary .Rothfend
of No. 222 Madison street, was I'm
aware of the birth Of the child until
Informed Of it by the attending nurse
two hours afterWard. She rubbed hel
eyes in amazement and doubted the
word Of the nurse until the baby
wrapped in doWny flannels, was
brought to her.
Your wish came true, it's a boy >
the nurse told her.
How could it be born without my
knowing it?' added the mother, al
| most overcome with joy at the sight
OF her first child. The doctor, stand
ing at the bed, smiled and said: 'It's
the twilight sleep my good woman
that's all.
The scientist who has been con-
Quoting the twilight Sleep BIRTH at
the Jewish Maternity Hospital comes
from Freiburg University, where he
has worked with Dr. Kronig and Pro
fessor Carl Gaues in 5000 successful
births under this marvellous painless
new method. He does not wish his
name to be used at this time for eth
ical reasons.
1t was for the purpose of visiting
and observing American hospitals
that he came over here during a va
cation and was invited by Irwin Ar
now, superintendent Of the Jewish
Maternity Hospital, to demonstrate
the effectiveness Of the twilight
sleep" for mothers.
The visiting scientist declared the
criticism Of the method, which has
been tried out with Indifferent sue
cess by a number Of American physi-
clans here, came because they did
not properly know the technique in
the administration of the treatment.
"Out of lis births here, SO per
cent have proven perfectly successful
By successful We mean that not one
of that percentage of mothers to
whom the treatment was given knew
when their babies were born. All
pain was forgotten, and although the
same physical conditions existed dur
ing the sleep that exists in the
usual condition at the time, the
mother awakes unconscious of all suf
fering," explained the doctor.
''It is really too bad" he continued
pists do not give money to enlarge
the. Jewish Maternity Hospital Be-
cause of the crow 81 condition doz-
ems of eKpeetant mothers are turned
away from the. hospital each day.
And if any one of these million
aires could have seen and talked with
the mothers who had come out of the
twilight Sleep" looking as rested
and fresh and happy as girls in their
teens and with no knowledge of the
pain that has made motherhood so
terrible in anticipation and in reality,
it would seem that generous dona-
tions would be Forthcoming.
There were in the private room
and in the wards Is or more mothers
and not one of those women could
tell when their little ones came into
the world
''It is the greatest boon to the
of the world since it be-
gan," enthusiastically remarked Mrs.
Hazel Harris, of No 449 West One
Hundred and Twenty-seventh street,
who had her first baby few days
before
81 felt slight pain before my treat
ment was begun, which, of course is
necessary" she said, "but the mo-
ment the doctor began giving me the
My baby was born in the night and
my husband was the first one to tell
me that I had little son at 8 O'Clock
the next morning, When I saw for
the first time the darling that you
see over there in his crib.
Mrs Rosie Grand, of No. 165 Suf-
folk street, was presented with "tWi-
light Sleep twins, and she was the
most surprised mother in the world
when five hours later the nurse then
brought into the room the two tiny
little ones
Mrs. Rebecca Lesnicls, of No. COS
East Fifty-first street, became the
mother of her second child Aug. 80,
and was so bright anG strong the
day after that she walked about the
room as alertly as she did before
the little one came.
It was the same story from Mrs.
Pesitzner, of No 236 East Thirteenth
Mrs Sadie Bender, of No.
274 Henry street,, Mrs. Weinberger,
Of No. 204 West One HUNDRED and
Forty-third street, and a dozen other
patients.
:'The more intelligent woman is
the more successful the twilight
sleep treatment" said the scientist.
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