The sun., 1916-08-17
TWILIGHT SLEEP
ABANDONED HERE
Long Island College Hospital
Only One to Advocate
the Treatment.
GREAT n IS SEEN
Not Painless, but Mother Does
Not Remember Sensation,
Expert Reports.

Action Of Johns Hopkins Hospital.
Baltimore. In disappearing twilight
sleep" after tests extending over a
lengthy period. or the ground that the
menace to tho life of the child is too
great to warrant Its usc. follows by more
than a c similar action On the part
of the majority Of New York hospitals
where maternity cases are received.
As early as April. 1915. the twilight
sleep treatment in childbirth was aban-
doncd at the Polytechnic Medical Schoo
and Hospital. 1t also was abandoned
about the same time at the City Hospital
on Blackwell's Island.
Yesterday II was said at the Jewish
Maternity Hospital on East Broadway.
at tho Sloane Hospital for Women on
Fifty-ninth street. Lebanon Hospital In
The Bronx and the Lying-In Hospital on
Seventeenth street that the twilight
sleep method no longer Is used by them.
At Gouverneur Hospital II was said
The twilight sleep method now Is used
only in specially selected cases. and that
not more than one or " treatments a
month are given In the maternity ward
Used in Brooklyn Hospital.
At the Long Island College Hospital
Ia Brooklyn. however. the twilight sleer
method is held in as high a regard as II
ever was since 1t was put into practice
there.
I'VE use the twilight sleep method
whenever the patients wants It, one OF
the ohstetricians at the hospital said
yesterday, and almost always with sue
cess" 1t was declared by the hospital
aR1nInlo t,ut thn action nf Inhns Hon
kins Hospital in disappearing the method
would have no effect on its use Mt the
Long Island College Hospital and tina,
the hospital had no intention OF giving
IL up now after the satisfactory results
which had been obtained.
Dr A. J. Roney OF l5i Henry street
attending obstetrician and cynecologist
of the Jewish Maternity II Lebanon
hospitals. almost a year g declared
that the twilight sleep method is prac'
tically a lead issue now.
Dr. Rongy has written a paper on the
subject Of twilight sleep. based on the
large number OF cases in the hospitals o!
| this city and almost 1000 cases else.
where in this country which he ha.
studied. The paper. which was published
IN the American Journal Of Obstetrics
sets forth Or. Rongy's reasons for op.
posing the general use OF the twilight
sleep method.
Like walking IN sleep.
THE treatment was accepted with toe
much enthusiasm at FIRST" pr. RonC,
says. There was great mlsconcepticr or
the part OF the public regarding ttis
treatment. People thought that II wa,
painless. or almost painless. This Is no
50 there Is as much pain as IN ordinary
1 . ptllhtrth 1-ha npIN. diNaran,a a. tb.,
the patient does not remember havins
the sensation Of pain. Tho finer cells O,
the brain do not register the impression
ard when the mother comes to she think,
she has not suffered. The strain Is jus
as great with as without twilight sleep
In fact. twilight sleep is exactly like {
man walking in his sleep. He walks a
night and knows nothing about II In tn,
morning. and in fact will deny y blu
nevertheless he has used his legs I,
walk"