A few weeks later, an anaesthesiologist was administering Versed, a drug nicknamed the "
twilight sleep." I am told that while I was out, I asked Charlie if he wanted me to say the names of the presidents backward, and I did, only to pass out around Lyndon Johnson.
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Those who have undergone surgery will have been given hyoscine in pre-med -- it sedates the central nervous system and induces what is known as
twilight sleep. Scopalomine, a derivative of hyoscine, claimed to be a favourite of the Gestapo, was known as the 'truth drug' and administered to obtain confessions.
Most opted for what was known as '
twilight sleep' - a concoction of various drugs to make royal and noble mums unconscious for a 'painless' birth.
Most opted for what was known as "
twilight sleep" - a concoction of various drugs to make Royal and noble mums unconscious for a "painless" birth.
The expectant royal mum, meanwhile, has been put to a '
twilight sleep' for the duration.
In the 1840s, female royals who are about to welcome their babies undergo what is called a
twilight sleep. This means that the baby will be pulled out with the use of forceps while the mom was under general anesthesia.
The entire procedure takes only about 20 minutes, during which you are put into a light,
twilight sleep and are unaware of what is taking place.
Instead I found remedies such as soporific Poppy Drops, with their hint of arcane knowledge, and
Twilight Sleep, narcotic herbs once used by women in childbirth.
their constant begging to be considered as exact copies of other people." And yet, Helga returns, over and again, to the site of the crime, "always alone, gazing intently and solemnly at the gesticulating black figures, an ironical and silently speculative spectator." I want to suggest that Larsens vaudeville show eerily echoes, appropriates, and revises a racially disturbing moment from Edith Wharton's
Twilight Sleep (1927).
DURING THE 1910S, IT WAS considered a feminist victory by women of the upper class to be completely knocked out into "
twilight sleep" during their labor through a potentially toxic combination of drugs that made you forget the pain even happened.
Her central texts here are Glasgow's The Descendant and Life and Gabriella and Wharton's The House of Mirth, The Age of Innocence, and the lesser-known Harlem Renaissance novel
Twilight Sleep.