Benjamin Baron

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He attempted the infusion of three ounces of milk obtained from a healthy postpartum woman. The patient, a woman with suppurative lung disease, complained of pain in her chest and back shortly after the injection began, and stopped breathing after two ounces had been given; however, she was resuscitated by artificial respiration and by ‘injections of morphine and whiskey’.
Nine Pints: A Journey Through the Mysterious, Miraculous World of Blood
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