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Mrs. Gallagher, wide awake and sipping Coca-Cola, had had only light caudal anesthesia.

Many paralytics and iron-lung mothers have given birth to normal babies; their condition is somewhat similar to that induced by the pain-killing caudal anesthesia.

The New York Herald Tribune and the Chicago Tribune suspected that caudal anesthesia would prove to have drawbacks similar to those of the long series of "painless" methods introduced since the century's turn�drawbacks to the mother such as delirium, narcosis, cyanosis, vomiting, short duration of anesthesia; drawbacks to the child such as narcosis and asphyxia�and asked obstetricians for opinions.

They deny that continuous caudal anesthesia is any more dangerous than spinal anesthesia�both injections must be done by experts.

Journal two Chicago doctors reported that caudal anesthesia slowed up delivery in their 20 cases because the patient "has absolutely no urge to bear down."