A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . Auvards Couveuse (Interior View).* litres are contained in the cylinder, the overflow-pipe carries off the excess. Auvard suggestshaving two vessels, capable of holding three litreseach, keeping one under the escape-pipe and the * Archives de Tocologie. 228 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. other over the fire, reheating the water in the ves-sel filled by the escape-pipe and having it in readi-ness for the next change. The two vessels maybe thus used alternately, and but little time con-sumed in the heating of the apparatus as comparedwi
A handbook of obstetrical nursing for nurses, students, and mothers . Auvards Couveuse (Interior View).* litres are contained in the cylinder, the overflow-pipe carries off the excess. Auvard suggestshaving two vessels, capable of holding three litreseach, keeping one under the escape-pipe and the * Archives de Tocologie. 228 OBSTETRICAL NURSING. other over the fire, reheating the water in the ves-sel filled by the escape-pipe and having it in readi-ness for the next change. The two vessels maybe thus used alternately, and but little time con-sumed in the heating of the apparatus as comparedwith that required in the use of Tarniers invention. Fig. 36. c§>. Auvards Couveuse (Exterior View). To empty the cylinder, a rubber tube is attachedto the escape-pipes, by which it is made to act as asiphon—a small quantity of water poured into thecylinder through the funnel being sufficient to startthe liquid. THE AILMENTS OF EARLY INFANCY. 229 Before the couveuse was known premature Cotton , . - , swaddling. babies were swaddled in cotton, in order to be keptsufficiently warm. The directions for doing thisare as follows :— Take a square baby-blanket and place it diagon-ally on the table or bed. Turn down one cornerfor four inches distance, to come up over thebabys head. Spread over this blanket a lap ofraw cotton. Have the babys napkin and binder Fig. 37.
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