Medicine: Smoke House Baby

The small cardboard box which Charles Cochran, a Tennessee barber,carried when he entered his New Market yard one evening last weekcontained his dead baby daughter, born three months premature at ahospital 18 miles away. The doctor had worked on her for an hour and ahalf; given up. Barber Cochran put her on a shelf in his smoke housefor burial next day. Next afternoon when he opened the box the babybegan to cry. Rushed back to the hospital, she lived for 24 hours, thendied permanently.

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