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Twilight sleep

noun

A state of general anesthesia in which the person retains a slight degree of consciousness; can be induced by injection of scopolamine or morphine.

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"Twilight sleep" Quotes from Famous Books

... modern development, by which the pangs of childbirth are obviated by the administration of drugs or by hypnotic suggestion, has its opponents and defenders. The advantage of a painless childbirth, upon which the mother can look back as on a dream, is evident. The "Twilight Sleep" process has been used with the happiest results both for parent and child. Opponents of this system declare that the use of powerful drugs may injure the child. A method commended is the administration of a mixture of laughing gas and oxygen, which relieves ...

— Sex - Avoided subjects Discussed in Plain English • Henry Stanton

... time when the investigation of Twilight Sleep indicated that the world might become civilized, the Powers plunged into a war whose reason no man has yet discovered. Carl read the head-lines on the morning of August 5th, 1914, with a delusion of not reading "news," but history, with himself ...

— The Trail of the Hawk - A Comedy of the Seriousness of Life • Sinclair Lewis

... Physicians, Kroenig and Grauss, of the University of Baden, startled the world by announcing: "Dammerschlaf" or "Twilight Sleep," a treatment which rendered childbirth almost painless and free from dangerous complications. A woman's clinic was established at Freiburg where a combination of scopolamine and morphine was given. The muscular activity of the pelvic ...

— Searchlights on Health - The Science of Eugenics • B. G. Jefferis and J. L. Nichols

... see, is an extract from the leaves of a plant which is not yet included in materia medica. It has nearly the effect of scopolamine—once famous in connection with twilight sleep—and produces a daze of blue light, an intolerable sleepiness, and practically all the effects of hypnotism. A person under yague, as under scopolamine or hypnosis, will seem to slumber and yet will obey any order, by whomever given. He will answer any question without ...

— Astounding Stories of Super-Science, May, 1930 • Various

... being very healthy to have babies when you're between the ages of twenty and thirty; and how with this twilight sleep business she doesn't mind how often; that it's fifty times more interesting than breeding dogs and cats or guinea-pigs; and she's surprised more single women don't take it up. I think she must be detraquee.... I have a faint hope that ...

— Mrs. Warren's Daughter - A Story of the Woman's Movement • Sir Harry Johnston