A MESSAGE TO AMERICAN MOTHERS 
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m By HANNA RION (Mrs. Frank Ver Beck) H 
Author of “Let’s Make a Flower Garden,” “The Smiling Road'' 
==e “The Garden in the Wilderness," etc. 
TN this message to mothers by an American mother, Mrs. Ver Beck presents with 
authority and deep human interest the conclusive evidence of a personal 
HI investigation of the Freiburg method of painless childbirth. This method, popularly j|j 
j|[ known as “Twilight Sleep,” is now being successfully used in Russia, France, 
Hungary, Germany, Finland, Japan, Argentine, England, Scotland, and Ireland, |H 
■ both in maternity hospitals and in private practice. Si 
account of the reti- 
cences of medical etiquette 
the information about this 
beneficent method has until 
now been accessible only in 
medical journals and reports. 
In preparation for writing this 
book the author has spent six 
• months of study and investiga¬ 
tion mclliding three months at 
F rerou rg ;Ma ternity Hospital, 
in clos‘d ^observation of Dr. 
Gauss’ methocfi In the Frei¬ 
burg Frauenklinik over 5,000 
rnothei;s have had children 
* Vpaififessrlyjh “Twilight Sleep. ” 
A Vigorous and Healthy Young American, Born at 
Freiburg, in “ Twilight Sleep” 
\17HILE the book is written with simplicity and directness for the great 
mother-public, its authoritative scientific foundation and the carefully 
digested evidence of the medical and clinical reports will make Mrs. Ver Beck’s 
conclusions of great interest to the general practitioner. The book is illustrated 
with pictures of happy and healthy “Twilight Sleep” babies and the great scientists 
who are sponsors for the method. 
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TN addition to these 
vestigations Airs. Ver Beck 
has translated many thou¬ 
sands of words of foreign 
medical reports on the use 
of the two drugs, scopolamin 
and morphine which produce 
the “Twilight Sleep,” and 
has left no stone unturned to 
investigate every objection to 
the method which came to 
her ears. The British doctors 
have proved by thousands of 
successful cases that the 
method is entirely practical 
in private practice. 
