Omaha daily bee., 1914-09-18

In Manhattan and the Long Island Col
lege Hospital in Brooklyn. Their doors
being open TO prospective mothers, YOU
would better make an early application
to one of these. A private sanitarium
has recently been incorporated and has
been opened on the West Side. And there
is always your family physician, who
should be rock of refuge at this time
Perhaps your demand will fall upon
deaf ears as in the case OF a matron
whose opportunities to her physician
were met with Il haven't time to learn
this method" This not being a sufficient
argument to the woman who had right
to ask that science spare her a descent
into what is often for mothers the val
ley of the shadow OF death" he replied
impatiently:
IL your physician tells you that 1t
would not pay him to sit for many
hours at some womans bedside as is
necessary in the twilight sleep you may
write him down as unprofessional. 1t Is
time to change your physician.
II is true that we have no right to ask
physician to forego many patients and
large fees, although physicians there are,
and many OF them, VINO agree that while
pain and poverty stalk the earth no medi-
cal man should ever grow rich. But we
have right to expect that the man we
pay Cor curing our ills and for counseling
us how to be healthy shall display the
scientific spirit, ard shall at some tenn
porary sacrifice of time or money, inform
himself OF the discoveries that tend to
the alienation Of human suffering And
that that information shall be accurate
enough for working and saving purposes. |
DR.. Rongy of the Jewish Maternity |
hospital. has told me that hurried, wor-
ried physicians run into his hospital |
watch one or two cases of painless
motherhood. and rush out again to at
tempt the measurement always, rs you
may be sure, with success THE study
OF ten cases should fit a man to use the |
twilight sleep method" said DR.. Rongy, |
but not Less r D.; lle ,af,
young man at his elbow spoke. The |
young man was the DR.. Sleicher who for |
two years studied at Freeburgh hospital |
under the direction OF Drs. Kronig and |
Gnauss Il
The reason your American physicians |
failed in their first experience was that |
they did not take enough time to master |
the technique" he said. They have been |
in too much Of hurry. They have not
shown the patience"
There was call from an upper ward |
for DR.. sleicher. and the broad-shouldered, |
red-cheeked young man. with the kindly |
eyes and sensitive mouth hurried away. |
DR.. Rongy said. He came to America |
for visit last winter and went to one |
Of our largest hospitals to talk to the |
staff OF the twilight sleep He was told |
the hospital wasn't interested. He came !
to me. / talked with him for four hours.
The method seemed reasonable, the man |
sane. l resolved to try II. We have had /
one hundred and fifty cases and not one
failure. We have lost no babies and no |
mothers. If you had called here under |
the old regime your ears would have been
assailed by cries OF pain. We could
scarcely have talked, for them"
1t is true that in the Doctors office was
the silence of a summer emptied church.
Yet l had seen burdened women waiting
in the ante-r9om, and in the wards above
our heads and within earshot. the old
pain-fraught drama OF maternity was
being enacted in utter quiet.
SO whether you live in New York or
not 1t is within your rights TO ask your
physician to acquaint himself at first
hand with what seems to be the greatest
blessing modern times have vouchssfed
to woman. And II he declines, there are
physicians who are willing and anxious
to so acquaint themselves.
They need not brave the strife in Eu-
rope. IL is not necessary to journey to
remote Freiberg. In New York and Ann
Arbor the twilight sleep methods may be
learned
DR.. Rongy. who will read at the Ameri-
can Association of Gynecologists and
Obstetricans that opens at Buffalo. Sep
TENDER IA, paper on his successful tests
of the twilight sleep, does not stand with
his brothers in the belief that the twilight
sleep must be taken at a hospital at |
is easily within the means OF the woman
whose husbands income Is 5000 a year
even 5000 to take the damerschlaf at
home" he said. .
The method will develop new line of
specialists, men who will administer the