Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978 Page: 38
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who sought her help. She was indeed highly respected with some
women preferring her services to the doctor.
"When I first started practicing in Orange, Dr. Phillips (Mrs.
Odom is referring to Dr. Clark E. Phillips 1870-1950) got me my
papers (license) and supplied me with some chloroform and other
things like the drops for the babies eyes. (Silver Nitrate, re-
quired by law to prevent blindness from venereal disease.)
I went with him and helped him until he saw I could do all
right by myself. The chloroform was used at the very last and
then only a little. Sometimes, I didn't need it."
How many babies did she help to bring into the world? Gladys
could not even guess! "I wish I had kept a record. There were
so many - black and white."
For her services Gladys took as little as $5 at the beginning
and through the years this had increased to $50 when she made her
last delivery. "The most I ever made in one day was $100 and this
was just before I quit. I had just delivered one woman in River-
side and was coming out the door when the second woman's husband
met me. Her baby was delivered right away."
Gladys never lost a patient nor did she ever have any real
trouble except one time. "It was the strangest thing I ever saw.
The woman was having pains in her legs and no where else and then
she began to hemorrhage. I told her husband to take her to the
hospital and he did. She had her baby all right but a nurse told
me that a woman with a similar case had died in childbirth that
same week at the hospital."
She was often required to spend several days in the homes of38.
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Orange County Historical Society (Tex.). Las Sabinas, Volume 4, Number 1, July 1978, periodical, January 1978; Orange, Texas. (https://texashistory.unt.edu/ark:/67531/metapth255383/m1/46/?q=%22%22~1: accessed July 17, 2024), University of North Texas Libraries, The Portal to Texas History, https://texashistory.unt.edu.; crediting Orange County Historical Society.