Scopalamine Modified

"Twilight sleep," popular name for the use of scopalamine as an anaesthetic during childbirth--a method which fell into disfavor after it was found to have a detrimental effect on babies thus born--is still used regularly in a modified form in the Long Island College Hospital, Brooklyn, and some other hospitals. Dr. John 0. Polak has used it as a routine procedure in labor, with a resulting infant mortality for 1,000 cases of but 2.5 per cent, about one-fifth of the average for other deliveries. It should, of course, be administered only in hospitals and under specially trained doctors.

Jenner

The centenary of the death of Edward Jenner, the great English physician (1749-1823) who discovered vaccination for smallpox, was celebrated with appropriate ceremonies by the Academies of Medicine of London and Paris.