DEAD BABY LIVES

Hawke's Bay Herald-Tribune, Issue 141, 1 July 1937, Page 8

DEAD BABY LIVES

-Own Corresnondent).

Doctor Breathes in Mouth

(Bv Air Mail-

NEW YORK, June 16. Mrs Lucy Battinio lay in Brookljm Hospital. In lier arms lay her newborn ebild. Ifc was dead. Dr. Charles Gordon, a famous obstetric surgeon, was walkiug down tbe hospital corridor. He went to tbe bedside and sent for oxygen, for adrenalin. While he waited he set his lips to the child's niiouth and breathed air into tho tiny lungs. He sucked it out, blew it in, sucked it out, blew it in. Within seconds the cliild began to breathe. The cry that first inflates a baby's lungs rose from its lips. Mrs Battinio, who was conscious througkout the birth, said-; "I could see my baby was dead. Yet, about four minutes later, thcv told me he was alive. "I was bofding hirn^ in my arms. I was weeping when l)r." Gordon started to treat him. Tben, before I knew it. there was life in his little' body." Dr. Gordon says it is the most amazing case in a'l his many years' experience. He was utterly exhausted aftor restoring life to the child. And to-day the "miracle baby" enI torod upon liis second day of life, and J physicians give him an even chauce of j y owing to full manhood.