The Sunday telegram. [volume] (Clarksburg, W. Va.) 1914-1927, 1914-12-13

! eopathic Medical Society. I. II
annual session ut the Flower Eos.
pital. the physician emphasized his,
wish: to be understood as claimink
nothing OF a discovery, but as sim
ply<appropriating to a different use.
method used in other lines OF
medicine and dentistry. In this pa
per DR.. Allen gave credit for IN
valuable assistance in his expert
ments to Miss Lawrence. superin.
tendent of the hospital. and also re-
ferred to the aid rendered by Drs.
Hnzehy Gould and Gavenee.
Dr. Allen, who Is a graduate In the
class Of 1886 OF the New York
Homeopathic Medical COLLEGE.
which is in conjunction with Flower
Hospital. indicated his marked pref
erence for the nitrous oxide and
oxygen treatment over the regular
Twilight Sleep formula, embody.
Ing the use of scopolamin ana mar
cophen. In fact, his remarks. based
on his administration at the hospital
of both methods OF treatment.
amounted In effect to q criticism of
Twilight Sleep z
-. uaCb prepdreuf tDy'
MIN at the hospital with a view OF
testing the relative merits Of the
narcophen ard scopolamin sleeps
with the nitrous oxide and oxygen
treatments, DR.. Allen in the paper
referred to. says he administered the
first portion of the opolamin treat 4
mept at $40 o'clock in the after
noon. The crisis was reached at
I 1877. At the identical stage az
which the first portion of the tretit-
ment had been administered to the
scopolawin patient, the nitrous OK
tde and oxygen was begun on the
second patient at exactly 1880
o'clock in the evening. The stork's
visit occurred at-11 O'Clock.
found that the use of scopola-
min ana narcophen lengthened the
second stage" said the doctor Ii, \
his paper. "and its eject also seemed
so to stupefy the patient that ma
ture was not given an opportunitvf
to assist. With the nitrous oxide and
oxygen, as the case referred "a I
proved, the second stage was NOT z
only facilitated by the aid Of nature
Dut 70 such an extent that scarcely
one-stxth the time was consumed as
IN the scopolamin sleep case.
Gas and oxygen have been given
continuously for from four to fiye;
hours without any bad effects no.
ticed up to the present date. Nv
conclusion Is that gas and oxygen Z
are preferable to the scopoIafnir1 Il
treatment from the physician,sl (
standpoint because its use obyiatas 4
the tremendous sacrifice of time
and loss Of sleep which the latter Z
treatment entails owing to the lon
ger period of time consumed by Il:
Again, you always observe the
asphyxiated condition of the baby IN
the scopolamin cases. and we all
know OF the care and anxiety we
must exercise in bringing the case
to a successful conclusion.
In administering the gas and
oxygen we use the. nasal inhaler
and begin by telling the patient that
she Is not going to sleep, but that
she Will not feel pain IL she fol.
lows our Instructions. She Is told
to breathe through her nose ana
that she might feel dngling sen-
sation in her hands and feet and
that she may feel as il she were
floating through air.
We find that patients vary In
susceptibility, 1t being necessary to
administer from 65 to IS per cent
OF the nitrous oxide and from >35 70
10 per cent Of the oxygen to hold :
the patient in a state OF analgesia.
AT the start we give 95 per cent OF
the gas and We reduce the guam
tity."
DR.. Allen at his home today ex-
planned that he first used the nitrous
oxide treatment In performing an
operation on a well-known Brook
1yn man, whose symptoms were
such that no other treatment could
be used to free him from pain.