Norwich bulletin., 1914-11-20
TOLD THEIR EXPERIENCES
 UNDER TWILIGHT SHEET
New York Women Spike Before Beard of Lady Visit6rs at Bael<us Hos pftaI.


 The annual meeting of the hoard of lady visitors of the Backus hospital was held at o'clock Thursday af- ternoon in the nurses home at the hospital and had an unusually large attendance and an especially interest ing programme outside of the regular business as two ladies from New York addressed the meeting upon the sub- ject of Twilight Sleep
 Mrs. c. L.. Hubbard, chairman of the board, presided, and the report of the secretary and treasurer for the past year was given by Mrs. Howard l.. Stanton. Committees in prepara- ton for Christmas at the hospital were named to have charge of the gifts for the patients, the decorations and the music.
 Miss Marguerite Tracy of New Ro- chelle, N. -Y., was expected to be the speaker at the meeting, but she was taken sick Wednesday and could not come. She had made a special study of the Twilight Sleep at Ereinurg, Germany. In her place the speakers were Mrs. Mary Boyd and Mrs. Elm melt, to each of whom a child had been born at Freiburg under the spell of the Twilight Sleep.
 They spoke of the five hospitals in New York where the Freiburg method of dammerschiaf was being used, both in free wards and private wards. with
 
 pitals represented experiments on a large enough scale to have important results, Physicians from other cities were coming to New York to study these methods. Twilight Sleep is free to any woman, because there were staff nurses and doctors to do tho watch ing that was essential to successful treatment
 These hospitals are Gouyerneur, the Jewish Maternity, the Lying-In, Leb- anon and the Long Island college. In these hospitals 1000 babies have been Sleep method without accident to mother or child. The doctors who are doing the work were many of them at Freiburg last summer. Others of them are already familiar with scopo- lamin, the drug used with morphine at Frefburg in obstetrfc practice, hay ing tried it and made a failure of it some years ago.
 The publication in popular article of parts of Prof. Gauss report which America called to their attention de- tails which they had not regarded as important in their experiments. They made new experiments, painstakingly following the Gauss Twilight Sleep method of administering the scopola- min and they have nothing but good to report of these new experiments. One of these doctors in 1906 pub lished a report of a complete failure with quite large series of cases. This was pr. Harrar of the Lying-In hos pital. This same Dr. Harrar, in col laboration with Dr. McPherson, pre- scented at the meeting of the Asso- 1 eiation of Gynaecologists and Obstetri- clans, held at Buffalo in September a report of success in a new series of cases recently treated under Frei- burg rules.
 Opportunity was given for the wo- men in the audience 10 ask questions l of the two speakers, who answered to the satisfaction of the inquirers. l Mrs. Boyd has a son, who is ter months old. Neither of the woner ! brought their babies with them, al- l though it had been expected they would do so.
 In the course of the questions thai were asked one of the speakers sait i that she experienced absolutely nc pain while under the Twilight Sleep An hour after her child was borr she ate a hearty breakfast. At night got out of bed,' she continued, 'foI. | lowing the doctors advice, put on m. 1 slippers, walked to a couch across tht room and lay down. The third da! ! 1 went for an automobile ride. N, baby today is getting on fine. I nevel 1 experienced any i'll effects from tn drug the doctor gave me. The Twi light Sleep is wonderful, but if vol women want it you will have to fgh for it, for the mass of doctors arr 1 opposed to it.''