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Popularizing Ether-Oil Rectal Analgesia in Obstetrics.*

Indianapolis, Ind. Associate, Obstetrical Department, Indiana University School of Medicine.

Abstract

DESPITE THE FACT THAT more than eight and one-half years have elapsed since Gwathmey announced¹ to the profession the successful amelioration of labor pains by his method of rectal ether-oil analgesia, and over six years since the late A. B. Davis² reported the results on his first 1500 cases at the New York Lying-in, 1200 on the in-door and 300 on the out-door service, with no mortality to the mother or infant; and rather recently another report³ by Gwathmey of 20,000 hospital and home cases, also with no fetal or maternal mortality; and the numerous equally favorable reports that have appeared in the literature during the past half decade, mostly by men of obstetric renown, we find the method popular chiefly in a limited number of maternities and obstetric centers, and in a much more restricted number of instances is it used anything like routine.

Anesthesia & Analgesia® is published for the International Anesthesia Research Society® by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins with the assistance of Stanford University Libraries' HighWire Press®. Copyright 2006 by the International Anesthesia Research Society. Online ISSN: 1526-7598   Print ISSN: 0003-2999