Spontaneous Hæmorrhage in the New Born

To the Editor, The Indian Medical Gazette. Sir,?In view of the cases published in the British Medical Journal of this condition during the last few months I thought the following might be of interest to your readers:? I was called at 11 a.m. on the 6th September, 1930, by Dr. Ivarmarker to see a newly born child. He informed me that the child had been born two hours previously and almost immediately after birth it started bleeding from the mouth. I took a sterile syringe with me and went to the house of the parents. I found a female child, blue and almost pulseless,with red blood trickling from the mouth. On turning the child on its side there was quite a gush of blood. I took 5 c.c. of blood from the mother's Indian basilic vein and immediately injected it into the child's buttock. The result was dramatic; in 15 minutes or so the child's condition had improved and by the evening her colour was normal with a strong pulse. No further injection or drugs were needed. The father and mother are Parsees and perfectly healthy and this was their first child; the labour was normal with no interference. For three days following birth the motions were dark and tarry, but of course this may have been due to the presence of meconium. I must thank Major R. L. Vance, i.m.s., Civil Surgeon, Quetta, for permission to report this case.?Yours, etc., Assistant Surgeon D. S. JACKSON,