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experiments of Won Steinbuchel.
have failed to give the proper dosage
as recently worked out at Freiburg.

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as recently worked out at Freiburg.
"But, in the second place, there
are other conditions for success which
are scarcely less important than the
matter Of proper dosage"
To quote DR.. Kronig again:
II do not consider it the result of
chance that it is precisely in hospitals
with smaller number of cases that
our method has been adopted. In
large hospitals with many thousands
of births year, as in the cases of
the large hospitals of Berlin and
Dresden, our procedure has proved
total failure.
This is easier to understand when
we remember that the surroundings
of the patient have an Importance
which we should not underestimate
for the success of the method.
Sense-impressions. loud noises, bright
light, etc., considerably disturb the
half-consciousness. When six or
seven patients lie side by side in one
ward it is obviously impossible to OBJ
tain an even fairly effective semi
consciousness. This makes itself
felt even with the small number of
patients that we have Ia yearly aver
age of three births a day.. The
number of cases in which we obtain
loss of memory, or amnesia is in
Freiburg far smaller in those deliver
les which occur in the general ward
than in the case of patients treated
in our private wards, where they lie
in separate room, protected as far
as possible from all impressions of
sight and hearing"
When a number of Freiburg moth
ers asked Professor Kronig to ex-
plain to them why it is becoming un-
scientific to have pain in confinement.
he did it in this way:
He said that the actual normal
muscular effort involved in bringing
a baby into the world corresponds to
a climb up the Schlossberg. But,
for the modern woman of highly
complex nervous organization, the
muscular effort is complicated with
so much pain that often the pain it
self becomes factor of serious in
reference with the birth. And he
compared the mothers muscular ef-
fort to bring her baby into the world
in these conditions to woman who
might be obliged to climb up the
Schlossberg with a sharp nail in her
foot.
That all women, modern or old
fashioned would desire that their
child-bearing be made painless, if
this is possible with safety. is not
open to debate; that such method
is accessible to them by the exact
duplication of the tactics and condi-
tions at Freiburg is now well demon
strated. The greatest danger to
their securing it is, not that the drug
scopolamin will not be tried else
where-it has been so tried in this
country as we'll as in Europe-but
that it will be tried under other con-
ditions and other dosage than those
which are positively essential for the
securing of the exact and very nice
balance of consciousness and muscu-
lar action which must be obtained.
Professor Gauss. the associate OF
DIR. Kronig, in Freiburg, compares
the strenuous experiences OF the
modern aviator with his professional
work at the hospital. In closing a
recent report Of his medical specially.
he has. like DIR. Kronig. used his OBJ
servations of the mountains ABOUT
Freiburg to illustrate, in a popular
way, another feature of the new
treatment-extreme delicacies and
cautions required for its successful
use.
The twilight Sleep" he says.
is a narcotic condition Of extremely
limited breadth, like narrow noun
tain crest. To the left Of 1t lie the
dangers of too deep effect. with un-
consciousness and absence Of birth
pains; to the right the danger of too
shallow effect, with retention of con-
sciousness and sensibility to pain.
The power Of the memory is, and