NEW WAYS TO USE LIQUOR HYPOPHYSIS 209 
was up and said he had eaten his usual breakfast with- 
out discomfort. 
A ROUTINE IN LABOR 
By the use of posterior pituitary extract, labor can 
be made a pleasure,—at any rate, my patients look back 
upon their confinement as a happy episode in their lives 
and they are unanimous in declaring they will not be 
afraid to repeat the experience. Here is what I would 
call “the super-relaxation method” of delivery: 
As soon as labor surely has begun put the woman to 
bed without an examination. Place towels dampened in 
lysol solution over the vulva. Throw a sheet over the 
head of the bed. Saturate a towel with chloroform and 
pin it to the sheet about two feet above the patient’s 
head. As this towel becomes dry, saturate another 
and pin over the first. (The drop method is intermit- 
tent compared to this.) In thirty minutes the patient 
is asleep. Shave the pubes and around rectum. Scrub 
with soap and water. Put on sterile leggings. Draw 
one-half a mil. of Lig. Hypophysis into a medicine drop- 
per. Put a drop in each eye, two on the tongue and 
squirt remainder up the nose. Place two fingers of the 
gloved hand into the vagina and press gently, continu- 
ously and steadily backward. If this does not bring on 
uterine contractions inject 14% cc. Lig. Hypophysis 
under the skin above the knee. Continue the pressure 
alternating the hands as each may tire. This pressure 
and an occasional hypo. of Liq. Hypophysis will keep 
up uterine contractions while patient remains asleep. 
Fight, or even more injections may be given without 
harm, under such circumstances during the course of 
labor. In one hour the vagina should be large enough 
for the whole hand to be introduced into it, clinched and 
withdrawn without force. If the cervix is slow to 
dilate it may be stretched also. Insert two fingers of 
each hand and gently dilate. As the head appears, the 
