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1899

First experiments by Korff with “twilight sleep” (semi narcosis; “obstetric analgesia”) using composite injections of scopolamine and morphine (Fulops-Miller, 358). Woman’s Medical College of the New York Infirmary merges with Cornell (Morantz-Sanchez, 246-47) which, following example of Hopkins, begins accepting women in medicine (Bonner, 152). Publication of Crile’s An Experimental Research into Surgical Shock (Crile, I, 75).