Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia: And a Psychological Study of Twilight Sleep Made by the Giessen Method by Elisabeth Ross Shaw

Excerpt from Scopolamine-Morphine Anaesthesia: And a Psychological Study of Twilight Sleep Made by the Giessen Method by Elisabeth Ross Shaw N o novice at a spiritualistic seance could have been more deeply impressed than I was at that first clinic. I felt as deeply impressed as though I had never seen a patient under any anesthetic. Natural sleep, death, hypnosis, catalepsy and intoxication all seemed to be blended into a composite making up the wonderful Twilight Sleep. This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.