Word: berardinelli
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Dates: during 1930-1939
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Forty-five minutes later Dr. Carmine Gerade Berardinelli arrived to attend the young woman who, he had been told, had had a miscarriage. Dr. Berardinelli, insistent upon seeing the fetus, went out with the father who dug it up carelessly with a spade...
...astonished," wrote Dr. Berardinelli in the September American Journal of Surgery, "to see a baby, not quite full term. . . . Though the face was covered with dirt, I found no dirt in the mouth or the nostrils. On holding the infant up in the cold air, it started to cry feebly, moving both the arms and the legs. I rushed into the house with the baby, calling for hot water and warm blankets. In the kitchen, I tied the cord, placed the baby in a warm, bath and cleaned off the brown dirt clinging to the body. In the meantime...
...Berardinelli, who is assistant medical examiner of Essex County, N. J., commented: "It is distinctly uncommon in this country to bury infants alive. The case herein reported is one of the few instances in which the child is alive and perfectly healthy months after being buried alive...
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