It was in 1914 that a German doctor first offered women an anesthethic technique to make parturition painless. American feminists consequently demanded that the US medical profession offer the same procedure. Taiwan began introducing this method 20 or 30 years ago.
一九一四年，德國有婦產科醫生為產婦施行無痛分娩麻醉法，美國女性主義者因而要求美國醫界也提供這項醫療措施，我國則在二、三十年前開始引進。