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Humanization of Childbirth and Epidural Analgesia

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On Saturday May 14, 1853, 1 month after the childbirth of Queen Victoria under chloroform, the prestigious journal The Lancet [1], wrote: “intense astonishment, therefore, has been excited throughout the profession by the rumour that Her Majesty during her last labour was placed under the influence of chloroform, an agent which has unquestionably caused instantaneous death in a considerable number of cases. Doubts on this subject cannot exist… we could not imagine that anyone had incurred the awful responsibility of advising the administration of chloroform to Her Majesty during a perfectly natural labour with a seventh child.”

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Capogna, G. (2015). Humanization of Childbirth and Epidural Analgesia. In: Capogna, G. (eds) Epidural Labor Analgesia. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-13890-9_24

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