Evening Republican, Volume 19, Number 282, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 29 November 1915 — Twilight Sleep Popular Form For Stork Performances. [ARTICLE]

Twilight Sleep Popular Form For Stork Performances.

Five thousand births by twilight sleep is the proud boast today of officials at the Mary Thompson 'hospital, Chicago, which recently celebrated its 50th anniversary. Mary Thompson hospital is said to he the only institution in the northwest or west dii which the twilight sleep is the official anaeSthesa. Dr. Bertha Van H-oopen has officiated at all the 5,000 births. She declared births in which the twilight sleep process is hot used are relics of old ages. She, and members of her staff, believe non-employment of twilight sleep just as bad as teverting to the oldest forms of aiding in bringing children into the world. During the 50th anniversary celebration, Dr. Lillian Taylor demonstrated the use of twilight sleep drug in operations in which nine pairs of tonsils were removed in an hour. Another demonstration was that of a woman, who had borne a healthy kicking baby and had a goiter removed frim her neck before she came out of the twilight sleep.