Forget epidurals and gas and air for a second. Decades ago, some women were given a cocktail of drugs to knock them into a state between sleep and wakefulness while they gave birth. When they came to, ...

Scopolamine is a hypnotic drug made from henbane. As scopolamine hydrobromide solution it is widely used for inducing twilight sleep at childbirth, for quieting maniacs, drug addicts, alcoholics. Some ...

Dr. Funk-Brentano of Paris is credited with the discovery of new methods of “twilight sleep” (painless childbirth) differing from the scopolanium method now widely in use. They consist of injections ...