In _Essays in Pastoral Medicine_[61] I mentioned several cases of resuscitation after what had appeared to be certain death. Two of these had been "dead" for forty-five minutes before they were revived temporarily. Wayne Babcock[62] reported a number of new cases of his own. One was a resuscitation which lasted for forty-three hours, and which was begun twenty-five minutes after respiration had ceased. The patient was a very fat negress who had collapsed after the use of scopolamine. A man whose arm had been torn off died from shock in the operating-room. After fifteen minutes of artificial respiration the circulation started again, and he was kept alive for six hours in this manner, but he died as soon as the artificial respiration was discontinued. An exactly similar case was kept alive for seven hours by artificial respiration. One of Babcock's cases was a woman of eighty-seven years of age, who apparently died on the table during an operation for strangulated hernia. After ten minutes of cardiac and respiratory cessation she was revived. She died four days later of peritonitis. A man fifty-six years of age undergoing the same operation ceased breathing and his heart stopped. He was completely revived and cured. [61] New York, 1906, p. 164. [62] _Proceedings of the American Therapeutic Society_, 1912. Father Juan Ferreres[63] holds that aborted and newly born children should be baptized, although they give no sign of life, if they show no clear evidence of putrefaction. This opinion is mine also, but the word maceration should be substituted as more exact. Eschbach[64] says: "Infantes recenter natos et in vitae discrimine positos, aut foetus abortivos plane formatos, cum vel levissimus in eis motus apprehenditur, absolute baptizari oportet: cum autem sine motu et sensu iidem videantur neque tamen adhuc corrupti aut putrefacti sint, sine mora baptizentur conditionate: _Si vivis, ego te baptizo_, etc." These quotations give the common opinion of moralists at present, and this opinion is fully safe. Eschbach, however, would have the fetus "plane formatus," which is erroneous and an echo of the old Aristotelian notion. If the fetus is visible at all, open the membranes and baptize it conditionally, even if it is not as big as a pea. [63] _La Muerte Real y Apparente_, 4th ed., p. 21. Madrid, 1911. [64] _Quaestiones Physiologicae-Theologicae_, disp. 3, p. 2, c. 3, a. 3. An infant born apparently dead may be resuscitated after a delay very much longer than would be possible in an older person, provided always the infant has not begun to breathe.