The Yakima herald. [volume] (North Yakima, W.T. [Wash.]) 1889-1914, 1912-05-29
MOTHERlESS BABE
BORN IN HOSPITAL
Caesarian Operation Saves Life Of
Child When the Parent Is
Dead

NEW YORK. May 24-Just five
minutes after Mrs. Rebecca Lipskitz
died of appoplexy in the Fordhahl
hospital a motherless son was born
TO her DIR. Hermann Schoor almost
instantly performed upon her the
Caesarian operation, one of the few
successful operations of the sort ever
performed upon a dead woman.
The child is apparently in perfect
health, weight eight pounds, has well
developed lungs and appetite and APP
parently is none the worse for the
method through which it came into
the world. The heart action, exam
med by physicians. is said to be nor
NAL.
At the dinner table Mrs. Lipskitz
complained of illness for the first
time in her life. DR.. Tokman was
called. He found her in a faint, di-
agnosed apoplexy, which is hem
orrhage of the brain, and advised that
she be taken to a hospital.
His diagnosis was confirmed later.
DR.. Alexander Forman removed her
to Fordham hospital.
Her condition was pronounced
hopeless, and 1t was known she
would be dead in a few hours. DIR.
schorr, the house surgeon who had
attended her when she was brought
in, saw that a life. unborn, was in
danger, too.
Then it was thought that the par
alysis that had set in would destroy
the spark of life that appeared faint
to the nurse in attendance.
Two hours after she had been adj
mitted the nurse came to the pry-
stefan and told him Mrs. Lipskitz
was dead.
lis the child alive?" he asked.
Il think so,' said the nurse, and
the surgeon hurried with her to the
ward.
Mrs. Lipskitz was dead to all APP
pearance, but the physician refused
to take merely the ordinary appear
ance of death even in case so vital
to the life of another. He used every
means known to science to detect life
in the mother.
In the child he could detect no sign
of life, but determined to act at once.
There was but one light over the bed
of the patient All the rest of the
ward was in darkness.
To remove the body of the mother
to the operating room meant the loss
of minutes too precious to be wasted.
Giving the nurse instructions and with
screen about the bed that any wax
ing patient might have no idea OF
what was being done. the surgeon
hurried to a surgical case and took
from 1t what instruments he needed.
There was no time even to wait for
an assistant. With the night nurse
handin~ him the instruments he
wished and acting as an assistant
the surgeon proceeded TO perform the
Caesarian operation.
Five minutes after his mothers
death. Or. Schorr held in his arms
the baby, almost perfectly formed
which would have persisted but for
him.
'Is It alive. doctor Is 1t alive %
asked the nurse excitedly.
Very much alive" was the reply
and TO prove it was the infant res
cued from death let forth a healthy
cry.
"Give II to me-" said the nurse. her
eyes filling with tears as she looked
at the face of the mother, who could
not hear that sweetest OF music-the
sound of her baby's first cry.
The little fellow, swathed in a blan-
ket, was hurried TO the children's
ward. where he was fed and washed
and dressed. A half hour later, with
nurses peeking at him. he was sound
asleep. When he was bathed and
dressed he was weighed and tipped
the scales at eight pounds.