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Show Breathed Life Into Child Breathing new life into an infant, a young ambulance physician, Dr. Benedict Willis, attached to the Belle-vue Belle-vue hospital in New York city, saved an apparently dead new born baby the other day. The surgeon placed his lips close to those of the baby and forced his own breath for 40 minutes into and out of the lungs of the infant. When Dr. Willis reached the house, that of a man named Moca, the baby boy, lesB than an hour old, was cold and blue, and several women there told him the infant was dead. He thought so himself, he said, but nevertheless nev-ertheless Btarted the work of resuscitation. resusci-tation. Not until he had worked for 40 minutes, using hot water and moving mov-ing the arms, did the spark of life manifest its return. Then the little body began to grow warm and soon there was a lusty cry. This brought joy to the mother. The boy was her first born. She had recovered quickly from the shock, and was so grateful, after having been told that the boy was dead when born, that she confer red upon Dr. Willis the honor of naming nam-ing the child after himself, Benedict That there should be no delay th mother insisted upon an lmmediati christening. A Bible was procured and Dr. Willis read the baptismal servici and christened the baby Benedict |