"MIRACLE BABY"
DID NOT BREATHE FOR 90
MINUTES
Doctors throughout the United States are discussing with amaze-i ment the case of the "miracle baby" which did not breathe for the first hour and a half of its existence, states, an English newspaper. They are unable to understand how any human, being even a newborn babv could exist so long without oxygen. At the end of 90 minutes, as the heart beats were slowing down the baby drew its first breathy expelled it—and then stopped. A full minute passed before it breathed again ? and for two hours It breathed only once a minute. Then Dr. John Davis decided on a gamble, and injected metazole, the. most powerful stimulant knownf to medical into the shoulder. Oxygen was applied at the same time. A few minutes later the child cried out and respiration at once became normal.
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Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 22, 7 November 1944, Page 5
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144"MIRACLE BABY" Bay of Plenty Beacon, Volume 8, Issue 22, 7 November 1944, Page 5
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