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= Paid-up subscribersPRACTITIONER 2010;254 (1727):18
100 years ago:Painless labour
15 Mar 2010
I have no sympathy with the man (or woman) who holds the opinion that labour pains are “natural” and therefore not to be interfered with. Patients in labour will cry out bitterly that they are too weak to endure the increasing pains of the latter half of the first stage; chloroform here is contraindicated we know in the large majority of cases. Is there nothing more we can do then, certain in action, and absolutely safe for mother and child?
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